The Wake Forest University Primate Center (WFUPC) has initiated a new outreach and education program that  offers K-12 students opportunities to visit the WFUPC and learn about biomedical research.  

The Comparative Medicine Research Seminars take place each Thursday at the Primate Center.

The center is located ten miles south of the Wake Forest University Medical Center's Bowman Gray Campus in Winston-Salem, NC. The secure, rural campus features housing for nonhuman primates and mice as well as laboratories and offices for investigators and staff -- dedicated professionals with long experience in caring for nonhuman primates and other animals in research settings.

The campus has been part of the WFU School of Medicine's Comparative Medicine program since the early sixties; it's been federally funded since 1965 and was established as the Comparative Medicine Clinical Research Center in 1988.

The investigators associated with the WFUBMC have broken new ground in the use of animal models for the study of human diseases, in particular atherosclerosis, diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular and women's health.

There are a number of opportunities to work with the faculty of the WFUPC, including residencies and fellowships as well as shorter-term externships and other training.