"We’re only at the very beginning of understanding long Covid, and we need to put all our tools — including increased federal funding — to work to unlock its mysteries. Providing additional federal funding for nonhuman primate research will help to speed up this critical research, getting us much-needed answers about long Covid faster," writes UC Davis neurologist and CNPRC director John H. Morrison.

Researchers are trying to understand how birds, nonhuman primates, and livestock might be suffering as wildfire season gets more intense .@WIRED features expert on Air Pollution, Kent Pinkerton of the CNPRC.

The University of California, Davis, reached a major milestone attracting $1.07 billion in external research funding in the fiscal year 2021-22, up $102.9 million from the previous record set last year. In doing so, UC Davis joins an exclusive group of fewer than 20 public universities in the nation surpassing $1 billion in research funding.

The awards lend support to a wide range of research areas including advancing public health and medicine, developing new technologies in food, agriculture and the environment, empowering the underserved and enabling a more resilient society.

A biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of novel anti-infective therapies to treat life-threatening infections, announced that inhaled treatment of its fully human monoclonal antibody cocktail AR-701 resulted in no detectable COVID-19 virus in the lungs of rhesus macaques, and protected their lungs from disease. 

• Therapeutic administration of inhaled AR-701 substantially reduced and continued to suppress the viral load in the nasal sinus and oropharynx (upper respiratory tract region)
• Additional lab research also indicates both mAbs in the AR-701 cocktail are effective against the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.1, BA.2, BA.4, BA.5 subvariants in vitro.

This research was conducted through a collective effort involving researchers at the Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC) at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), the University of California at Davis, Vanderbilt University, the University of California at Irvine, and Aridis.

National Primate Research Center researchers are dedicated to improving human and animal health. The fundamental research we conduct is the first step in the sometimes decades-long process to find answers. Click to learn more about our research on alcoholism.

Oxytocin, a brain chemical known for promoting social bonding and nurturing behavior, has been used in several studies to potentially treat disorders such as autism, but with inconsistent results.

Emory National Primate Research Center Division Chief Larry Young and his research colleagues in Emory's’ Division of Behavioral Neuroscience and Psychiatric Disorders as well as Emory’s Center for Translational Social Neuroscience found the dynamic response of neurons to oxytocin may vary depending on the past social experiences of the individual.