UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin responded to members of the Dane County Board who expressed concern about the universityâ??s experiments on monkeys.
In this letter sent Wednesday, Martin admits that the “use of animals in research is a contentious issue and there are clearly sharp differences of opinion about it among people of goodwill.”
But she adds that the “university supports the pursuit of animal research, including non-human primate research, because of its potential to help us understand the building blocks and mechanisms of life, leading to treatments and more fundamental understanding of a wide-range of devastating diseases and conditions.”