It appears @PETA is making progress in it's mission to shut down @NIH monkey experiments in Oregon. After hearing over the last year from state legislators, PETA, tens of thousands of Oregonians, and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) Board of Directors today unanimousely passed a resolution authorizing negotiations with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to end all experiments on monkeys and transition the federally funded Oregon National Primate Research Center into a sanctuary, a move that would mark a revolution in progressive science and animal welfare. PETA says the primate center, which currently kills some 1,300 monkeys a year in experiments but breeds to keep the total number at 5,000, will stop breeding monkeys as OHSU devises a plan to end 60 years of much-criticized tests in which experimenters forcefully pumped nicotine into monkeys, addicted monkeys to alcohol, fed pregnant monkeys junk food diets and then forcibly removed from them and killed their babies, and repeatedly, painfully electro-ejaculated male monkeys, causing decades of suffering. “This is a glorious day for monkeys and for science,” says PETA Senior Vice President @kathygfrompeta “Research has moved beyond monkey experiments and into cutting-edge science with AI, organs-on-chips, and more, and PETA thanks OHSU president Dr. Shereef Elnahal, the board of directors, and NIH for shifting toward human-based technologies, while still caring for the monkeys who remain at the primate center.”