Animal Resources

The Emory National Primate Research Center Division of Animal Resources is responsible for all aspects of animal care and management, and provides collaborative research support to internal and external investigators.

The center maintains a colony of more than 3,000 monkeys (rhesus macaques and sooty mangabeys) and 3,000 rodents (mice, rats and voles) for behavioral and biomedical research and breeding.

Joyce Cohen, VMD, DACLAM, Associate Director for Animal Resources and Attending Veterinarian, directs the animal care and use program.

The Emory Primate Center (EPC) has 12 full-time veterinarians and maintains a veterinary residency and fellow program. All veterinarians are cross-trained at both of the center's locations and in all areas of research medicine.

Veterinarians and scientists within the Division of Animal Resources engage in a range of independent and collaborative research studies focusing on clinical care, colony management and behavioral management, as well as on infectious diseases, transplant medicine, neuroscience and genetics. 

The animal care program is fundamental to the center's mission, day-to-day operations and animal welfare. The Division of Animal Resources, EPC Administration and Emory University's Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) work closely to coordinate the care and management of animals at both EPC locations.

The groundbreaking discoveries being made at the EPC would not be possible without our dedication to the highest quality animal care and enrichment. Because of such dedication, the EPC has maintained full accreditation from the Council on Accreditation of the Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care International (AAALAC), the gold standard of laboratory animal care, since 1984.