UW fires director of primate research center after state probe into program

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In response to a state probe into the University of Washington's (UW) Primate Research Center, the university is making a leadership change.

“ scientific leadership and contributions to neuroscience are appreciated, and she will continue her work as a core scientist in the center,” UW wrote in anconfirming Basso’s departure from the role as director at the center. “This change in leadership was made in the best interests of the Center and in support of its long-term success.

PETA claimed the university downplayed both the severity of the incident and the latest raft of USDA citations in its USDA’s investigation revealed further transgressions within WaNPRC, including the discovery that another monkey that underwent skull surgery also sustained brain damage when a UW staffer left the room to take a phone call. An unskilled trainee was left alone in the room and botched the procedure, piercing the monkey’s brain and causing noticeable neurological damage.

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