Biomedical Primate Research Centre
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The Biomedical Primate Research Centre (BPRC) is Europe's largest primate research centre, using great apes and monkeys in animal testing and vivisection. It is located in Rijswijk, (Zuid-Holland) and employs about 100 people.
The BPRC is funded by the European Union and the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. Before it became an independent foundation on December 7, 1994, it was part of the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research.
Around 1,600 monkeys and great apes — Rhesus Macaques, marmosets, Cottontop Tamarins, night monkeys, squirrel monkeys and chimpanzees — are kept there to be used in experiments involving AIDS, malaria, hepatitis, xenotransplantations, as well as organ and bone marrow transplantations.
BPRC's bank is ABN AMRO, which is often attacked by animal rights activists, who also target Safaripark de Beekse Bergen, which hosts the BPRC's breeding colony.
