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Awards/PROJECT GRANT (B)

$37,946,246

Department of Health and Human Services·National Institutes of Health

to UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO MEDICAL SCIENCES CAMPUS

biotechactive
WORK BEGAN1987-04-15·LATEST ACTION·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_P40OD012217_075
Award description

CARIBBEAN PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Funds a research center in Puerto Rico that uses primates to study diseases and develop treatments.

Sub-sectors
primate-researchnih-research
Why this matters

Primate research is essential for understanding infectious diseases and developing safe vaccines before human trials.

Supply-chain signal

Drives demand for specialized veterinary services, laboratory equipment, and research-grade biological reagents.

U.S.–China competition angle

Long-term primate research capability is strategically important in U.S.-China biomedical research competition.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-06-14. Cost: $0.024288.

Period of performance
Start
1987-04-15
End
2028-11-30
Status
activein 870 days
Sources

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