Supplemental information for Infant monkeys deliberately subjected to maternal deprivation and maltreatment in publicly funded research in US, published 3 January 2023

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  Lawrence A. Tabak, D.D.S., Ph.D. <lawrence.tabak@nih.gov>, Joshua A. Gordon, M.D., Ph.D. <joshua.gordon@nih.gov>
  
  
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  Jeffrey Boatright, PhD <jeffboatright@emory.edu>, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee <IACUC@emory.edu>, Gregory L. Fenves <president@emory.edu>, NIH Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare <olaw@od.nih.gov>, Robert Dantzer, DVM, PhD <rdantzer@mdanderson.org>
  
  
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  Public funding of infant maltreatment studies in monkeys
  
  
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  Lawrence A. Tabak, D.D.S., Ph.D. Acting Director of the NIH Joshua A. Gordon, M.D., Ph.D. Director, National Institute of Mental Health Dear Drs Tabak and Gordon: I am writing to strongly object to research being funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Mental Health at the Emory National Primate Research Center, Emory University, in which infant monkeys are purposefully being subjected to severe maltreatment by 'foster' mothers to study human child abuse issues (see citation below my signature). The grants involved included at least MH078105, MH086203, OD011132 and OD010757. Not only is such research immoral, it has no direct benefit to people and the resources used would be better applied to help people directly. I urge the NIH in its entirety to stop funding these cruel experiments and to end the use of non-human primates as 'surrogates' for human beings. Sincerely, The developmental consequences of early adverse care on infant macaques: A cross-fostering study (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2022.105947)

Relevant directors of the NIH and its branches, as well as others who are responsible for the research in this Take Action alert:

• Lawrence A. Tabak, D.D.S., Ph.D., Acting Director of the NIH (lawrence.tabak@nih.gov)
• Joshua A. Gordon, M.D., Ph.D., Director, National Institute of Mental Health (joshua.gordon@nih.gov)
• Jeffrey Boatright, PhD, Chairperson, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, Emory University (jeffboatright@emory.edu)
• Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, Emory University (IACUC@emory.edu)
• Gregory L. Fenves, President, Emory University (president@emory.edu)
• NIH Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (olaw@od.nih.gov)

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