‘Vast majority’ of NIH chimps to be moved to retirement sanctuary, agency says
The National Institutes of Health plans to relocate the “vast majority” of its chimpanzees formerly used for biomedical research into a retirement sanctuary, Director Francis Collins told STAT today.
WASHINGTON — The National Institutes of Health plans to move the “vast majority” of its chimpanzees formerly used for research to a sanctuary in Louisiana, Director Francis Collins told STAT Thursday.
“We do believe that chimpanzees should be moved to the retirement facility unless there is really very strong evidence that this would be acutely harmful to them and threaten their ultimate survival,” Collins said.
The NIH released a Thursday laying out its plans for the hundreds of chimps that are still living in agency-supported research facilities.
