Biology-UPRRP: Caribbean Primate Research Center



Research General information Overview Research areas People Faculty Staff Postdocs and Visitors Facilities and Resources Animal Care Facility Sequencing/Genotyping Facililty Bioinformatics Lab El Verde Field Station Field House at El Yunque Herbarium High Performance Computing Facility Mayaqüez Island Marine Station Microscopy Facility Microarray Facility Monoclonal Antibody production Facility Museum of Zoology UPRM Agricultural Experimental Station Centers, Institutes, and Programs Caribbean Primate Resource Center Center for Molecular, Development and Behavioral Neuroscience Center for Applied Tropical Ecology and Conservation Institute of Tropical Ecosystem Studies Research for Undergraduate Students General description Research opportunities	Caribbean Primate Research Center The Caribbean Primate Research Center (CPRC) conducts multidisciplinary, collaborative studies on the entire life cycle of rhesus monkeys as a biological model for humans. For over 30 years the CPRC has been providing an invaluable service to the national and international scientific community by providing Indian-origin rhesus macaques with known backgrounds, and of the same genetic pool, for use in studies of numerous diseases that afflict humans.