Most Medical Research Using Chimps Isn’t Necessary, NIH Says
December 15, 2011, 2:02 pm
A report out today from the Institute of Medicine criticized most federally supported medical research on chimpanzees as unnecessary. Immediately afterward, Francis S. Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, said his agency would not accept new grant applications for chimp-based research, and would begin reviewing current projects (27 external ones, many at university facilities, and 10 at the institutes themselves) to see if they should continue under new criteria. “We would guess something like 50 percent would not,” Dr. Collins said.