Research Resources

The Yerkes Division of Research Resources is responsible for colony management, animal care, veterinary services and support, and environmental health and safety programs.

Employees within the division serve as resources for internal and collaborating researchers to ensure their access to laboratories for clinical pathology, histology and electron microscopy and immunology as well as facilities for necropsy and pathology. Researchers enjoy state-of-the-art equipment in these facilities to perform such clinical tasks as hemogram and blood chemistry evaluations, bacterial cultures, parasite examinations, necropsies, blood cell phenotype determination and tissue collection and evaluation.

The Yerkes facilities are staffed by qualified personnel including pathologists, veterinary care staff and animal care technicians who process requests and provide assistance with the preparation of new research proposals and specimen sample requests.

The National Institutes of Health has awarded the Yerkes National Primate Research Center approximately $600,000 for a four-year Nonhuman Primate Clinical Medicine Residency Program Training Grant for veterinarians. More information can be found in the Yerkes Newsroom.