This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. The Director s Office hosted two general staff meetings in FY2005-2006, five scientific seminars, three scientific retreats, monthly internal advisory board meetings, an external advisory board meeting, and a chancellor s visit. The chancellor's visit was also attended by the deans of the UW-Madison Graduate School and Medical Schools. Highlights discussed at the retreats included a new Information Services initiative on bioinformatics and data sharing (see following section), meeting needs for specialized research resources, and updates in our current research program. As part of the External Advisory Board meeting, five new scientific affiliates highlighted their work on movement disorders, aging and calorie restriction, kidney transplant survival, embryonic stem cell research, and genetics typing. The director and colleagues visited China in August and September. Their visit began at the Beijing Institute of Geriatrics and ended at the Nanning Primate Facility. A private foundation hopes to establish a network of research expertise and ability to include sufficient access to nonhuman primates, so that promising new therapies for Parkinson s disease can be tested with minimal delay. The team worked with Chinese researchers and animal care staff to set up a new training and breeding site, an IACUC, CDC animal transfer protocols, data pools and other advancements. The director was appointed to the Council of the Institute for Laboratory Animal Research (ILAR) of the National Academies. (See the awards section of this annual progress report.) He was also appointed to the long-range planning committee for the General Clinical Research Center at UW-Madison and has been elected chair of the Biological Sciences Section for GSA. The director presided over a successful AAALAC site visit, the grand opening of the new UW-Madison and WNPRC AIDS research lab, and the renaming of the Primate Center Library in honor of Lawrence Jacobsen. The director attended the following meetings off site in FY 2005-2006: -- Rosalind Franklin Comprehensive Diabetes Center at the Chicago Medical School for scientific collaboration on diabetes, July. -- NIDDK Special Emphasis Review Committee Panel, Washington, D.C., July. -- Institute for Laboratory Animal Research Council meetings, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, July and November. --58th annual scientific meeting of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), Orlando, November. The Primate Center hired a new coordinator of Centralized Protocol Implementation. This position now reports to the Director; it previously reported to the Associate Director of Animal Services. Training in the Director s Office included three training courses for the public information officer and outreach specialist two embryonic stem cell culturing methods laboratory courses and an animal handling course. The executive assistant to the director attended a Spanish in the Workplace class. The PIO and the executive assistant attended a training meeting on research communications strategies in Chicago. Most of the Center s general progress in FY2005-2006 is readily available via materials produced by the Public Information Office, with support from Information Services. These materials press releases, publication lists, newsletter articles and more appear at www.primate.wisc.edu. Local, national and international scientific media interest in WNPRC activities remained high, while animal rights related press coverage about the Primate Center and UW-Madison was mostly limited to one downtown tabloid and two campus newspapers.
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