New construction at Yerkes
January 20, 2012
Yerkes National Primate Research Center
One of eight national primate research centers funded by the National Institutes of Health, Yerkes National Primate Research Center provides leadership, training, and resources to foster scientific creativity, collaboration, and discoveries.
Yerkes-based research is grounded in scientific integrity, expert knowledge, respect for colleagues, an open exchange of ideas, and compassionate, quality animal care.
Studies involve 3,300 nonhuman primates. Approximately 1,300 of the animals are at the main center on the Emory campus, and another 2,000 are at a 117-acre facility in Lawrenceville, Ga. The center also has 13,000 rodents in its research vivariums.
Yerkes National Primate Research Center broke ground last month on a new $15 million research building and a three-story addition to the neuroscience research facility.
The new 19,800-square-foot building will house researchers focusing on infectious disease and transplant medicine, says Stuart Zola, the center's director. The facility is being built with NIH stimulus funds, and the expansion is expected to create up to 20 new jobs, including researchers and animal care technicians. The facility will address major unmet needs in tuberculosis and other emerging infectious disease threats and will further the development of immune therapies to reduce morbidity and mortality associated with bone marrow, organ, and tissue transplants.
The addition to the neuroscience research facility will house the Emory Institute for Drug Discovery and the Center for Innovative Genetics.
Three-story addition to the
neuroscience research facility
