The University of Cambridge’s Non-Human Primate facility is home to our marmosets.
Our marmoset work provides a fundamental understanding of the processes behind the symptoms of psychiatric disorders including depression, obsessive compulsive disorder and anxiety. This work will help to transform the lives of the millions affected by these conditions as current treatments are limited and show variable success rates. Given the high cognitive abilities and complex social behaviour of these animals, they are only utilised where absolutely necessary and where, for ethical and practical reasons, it is not possible to carry out the research in humans.
The facility is home to the following spaces and equipment:
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Holding Spaces
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Breeding Spaces
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Surgical Spaces including stereotaxic equipment
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Labs
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Procedure rooms
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Marmoset Food Preparation areas
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MRI Scanner (Owned by PDN)
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PET Scanner (Owned by WBIC)
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Behavioural Testing rooms hosting marmoset touch-screen testing apparatuses (owned by PDN) and Rodent testing boxes (owned by Psychology)
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Operating microscope (owned by PDN)
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Stereotaxic apparatus (owned by PDN)
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Automatic C02 machine for schedule 1