The Yerkes National Primate Research Center, originally established and located in Orange Park, Florida, and later relocated, in 1965, to Atlanta, Georgia, is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's primate research branch located at 201 Dowman Drive, Atlanta, Georgia, on the campus of Emory University. It is one of eight national primate research centers funded by the National Institutes of Health.
The center, founded in 1930 by Robert Yerkes, the pioneering primatologist who specialized in comparative psychology, is a recognized leader for its biomedical and behavioral studies with nonhuman primates.
The Yerkes Main Station, located on 25 acres (100,000 m²) of the Emory campus in Atlanta, contains most of the center's biomedical research laboratories.
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