UConn Told To Return Funds
Violations Of Animal Welfare Rules Prompt Order Against Health Center
By GRACE E. MERRITT |Courant Staff Writer
January 25, 2008
The National Institutes of Health has ordered the University of Connecticut Health Center to return some of the grant money given for brain experiments on monkeys, because of violations of animal welfare regulations.
The federal agency asked UConn this week to return $65,005 of the grant because of violations in the primate lab, where researchers drilled holes into monkeys' skulls and implanted steel coils into their brains to record eye movements for a neuroscience experiment.
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Editor's note: These kinds of administrative actions should not be viewed as ends within themselves (since the law merely regulates the systematic exploitation of animals in labs), but means by which to hold animal abusers in laboratories legally accountable (since they are unconcerned with the moral implications of their violent work) and keep the discussion of animal rights in the open. JG
Monday, February 4, 2008
NIH orders UConn to return $65K in grant funds
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