Home » Bulletin 2007
Meeting about primate research at the European Parliament
In November, four UK academic and research funding organisations held a briefing for MEPs about the use of primates in medical research. Leading scientists from the neurosciences and AIDS research communities spoke at the meeting, as well as patient representatives who described the difference that treatments developed from primate research had made to their life and health.
Against the background of Sir David Weatherall's 2006 report 'The use of non-human primates in research', the speakers informed parliamentarians about which areas of medical science use non-human primates, the way that such research is conducted, the advances that have been made through studies on primates and what the biomedical research community is doing to reduce, replace and refine the use of primates.