The Willamette Week is working on a story about Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) and a grant proposal to expand the Oregon National Primate Research Center. That’s right, OHSU is seeking over 15 million dollars to build another primate lab on their Hillsboro “West Campus” and further increase the current census of 4,200 monkeys.

Read Willamette Week’s current blog, MONKEY BUSINESS: Reporting on OHSU’s Primate Lab, about how OHSU reacted when they got a call from the paper and stayed tuned for more news about this expansion plan and what can be done about it.

OHSU is seeking funding through the Obama Administration’s Recovery Act, which in part has allocated 10.4 billion dollars to the National Institute of Health. In Defense of Animals is addressing this issue and will shortly be releasing a report to the Administration, Congress and the NIH Review Boards with an eye toward funding 21st century human-based research that holds more promise to advance human health than outdated animal experiments.