The Biomedical Primate Research Centre (BPRC) is Europe's largest primate research centre. It is a scientific research institute that performs research that contributes to the identification and development of new medicines against deadly diseases.

 

Disease causes misery and large numbers of deaths in human populations worldwide. For many common deadly diseases there is still a desperate need for effective medicines. BPRC is a scientific research institute that exists to perform vital research that contributes to the identification and development of these new medicines.

 

BPRC is committed to using non-human primates for this critical research only where there are no suitable alternatives. Research is also required to identify and develop alternatives to the use of non-human primates. BPRC has an active and expanding programme to develop alternatives following the principles of reduction, refinement and replacement

 

The BPRC is funded by 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.