Cotton top tamarinFLICKR, SU NEKO
On March 1, interim director Fred Wang of Harvard Medical School’s New England Primate Research Center (NEPRC) resigned for “personal and professional reasons,” according to the Boston Globe.
The research facility has been swathed in controversy over animal welfare violations the past couple of weeks. On February 27, the US Department of Agriculture doled out three citations to the NEPRC for failing to comply with federal animal welfare regulations. And then, just 2 days later, the Boston Globe reported that a cotton top tamarin had died at the center, probably from ailments caused by dehydration. It was the fourth monkey to die because of negligence since June 2010, and compelled the facility to suspend new experiments.
But these problems aren’t new at Harvard. Wang was ...
