Wake Forest University—$474,347
NIH gave repeat customer Michael A. Nader, an experimenter who has absorbed $30 million in NIH money since 1998, close to half a million dollars to addict monkeys to cocaine and nicotine, forcing them to choose between the drugs and food.
Michigan State University —$547,003
Experimenter Asgerally T. Fazleabas, another repeat NIH customer, has received more than $29 million to induce painful endometriosis in baboons and mice, neither of whom naturally experience it. Fazleabas forces baboons to undergo laparoscopy, biopsies, as well as blood and tissue collection. Part of this grant allows Fazleabas to cut off part of a mouse’s uterus and sew it to the inside of their abdomen.
University of Maryland, Baltimore—$548,544
This money backs a project that has already taken $3 million from NIH, and purports to study human menopause by ripping out the ovaries of rhesus macaques and then inducing simulated ‘hot flashes’ by pumping the monkeys with niacin (vitamin B3), estrogen, or an experimental drug.
University of Houston—$740,658
This money adds to the $4 million this project has received since 2016. In it, newborn monkeys are reared wearing helmets that plunge them into darkness and distort their vision. As they grow, the experimenters subject the babies to multiple invasive surgeries, implanting a post to their skulls, inserting electrodes into their brains, and affixing coils directly onto the outer white surface of the animals’ eyes.
University of Georgia—$1,441,664
This money adds to the $6 million NIH has already given for experiments on dogs and rats. Experimenters force a genetically engineered probiotic into rodents and dogs who are supposed to “model” Alzheimer's disease, a disease that neither dogs nor rodents suffer from.
Washington University—$632,703
Experimenters used this money to cut into dogs’ necks, deliberately paralyzed part of their voice boxes, subjected them to months of invasive tests, and then killed them to dissect their throat tissues.
Colorado Research Partners, LLC—$1,151,963
This money was used to force-feed dogs for weeks at a time an experimental drugs supposedly aimed at treating alcohol use disorder. Experimenters drew their blood repeatedly, and then killed them to dissect their organs for signs of toxicity.