No Cures In 40 Years

SHUT DOWN THE OREGON PRIMATE CENTER

Welcome to the Coalition to Abolish Animal Testing, the website devoted to exposing the scientific and medical fraud committed at the Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU) operated Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC).

Since ONPRC opened its doors in 1962, there have been no significant benefits to human health produced by this facility.  Yet over forty years have passed, billions of public tax dollars have been spent, and countless lives have been lost.  Now the OHSU-run facility is under a twenty year expansion which will greatly increase the amount of non-human animal based experimentation occurring on-site in Beaverton, Oregon.  The Oregon Primate Center needs not to expand, but, in recognition of the lack of any substantial benefits to humans, it needs to be shut down.

The Coalition to Abolish Animal Testing (CAAT), based in Portland, has one specific campaign - NO CURES IN 40 YEARS, SHUT DOWN THE OREGON PRIMATE CENTER.  This website is a tool and a resource for this campaign.  We encourage you to read through our pages and understand why this center doesn't need to be reformed, but rather completely closed.  After viewing our site, we encourage you to contact us and get involved in the campaign to close the ONPRC and have the public funds re-directed to prevention and clinical research (among other areas) that actually will aid in the advancement of human medicine.