We collect saliva by allowing monkeys to suck on a saliva swab. On the left is the breeding male, on the right is a female.
In early December, one of our PhD students received a grant for important hormone research in macaques, aimed at improving the success of introductions of breeding males into groups of females and their offspring. This grant is awarded to researchers active in the field of animal behavior.
Richard Bartfai (Radboud University), Bert Windhorst (AmsterdamUMC) and Clemens Kocken (BPRC) have received a Synergy Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for exploration of hypnozoites, malaria-causing parasites that can enter a dormant state in the liver. The team wants to gain understanding of the interplay between hypnozoites and their host, to ultimately enable the development of new drugs against malaria.
We've put it all together in the BPRC Annual Scientific Report. You will find the scientific highlights in 2022, the financial results and the facts & figures.
Recent research has already revealed that patients who have died after a severe SARS-CoV-2 infection exhibited brain inflammation. Additionally, there is a growing body of research focused on patients with Long COVID who experience prolonged neurological symptoms such as fatigue and cognitive impairments. These symptoms significantly impact their daily lives.
In December 2019, a respiratory disease caused by a previously unknown coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, was reported for the first time. The centre of the outbreak was Wuhan, China. Since then, the virus has spread rapidly across the world and not long after that, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a pandemic in March 2020.
Would you like to know more about our scientific progress in 2021?
We've put it all together in the BPRC Annual Scientific Report. You will find the scientific highlights in 2021, the financial results and the facts & figures.
Within the Biomedical Primate Research Centre (BPRC) there is a profound interest in the development of animal-free innovations. We developed a large variety of bioassays, which also turned out useful for research into multiple sclerosis involving experimental animals.
COVID-19 has many faces. While one person just has a runny nose, the other gets really sick. Also, some suffer from the long-term consequences of SARS-CoV-2 infection, such as persistent fatigue and shortness of breath. Even after mild infection.
