A University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher is serving a two-year suspension from experimenting with animals after at least three monkeys died during or soon after her experiments, the university confirmed.
A monkey died in a research chair while a technician took an unapproved lunch break, Eric Sandgren, chairman of the All-Campus Animal Care and Use Committee, confirmed on Monday.
The deaths were part of an unusual number of complications from Ei Terasawa’s animal experiments several years ago, Sandgren said. The university reported the deaths to the federal government, but did not make a public statement at the time.