W      IR    E     N    E   W     S     FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN NEWS SERVICE, MA  ON, WISCONSIN 53106
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MADISON, Wis.--Three top off iclal~-f the National Institutes of Health will
participate In the formal opening of od'6University of Wisconsin's new Regional Pri-
mate Research Center In Madison ~cnday and Tuesday (April 27-28).
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Guests will lncl!,1d6 Ors. Frederick Stone, chief of the NIH division of
research facilities a    resources; Willard H. Eyestone and Joe R. Held, of the
animal resources    fice.
Ot r participants In a series of scientific meetings will Include/pjof5.
Harry A. Wai"sman, pediatrics; Harry F.,Harlow, center director; James R, Allen and
Julian L. Van Lancker, pathology; Richard C. Wolf, physiology; and project associates
Robert E. Bowman, John W. Davenport, and Vincent J. Polidora, members of the 13W facult%
The center, completed several months ago, Is located at the corner of
Capitol Court and North Orchard Street, It consists of a four-story brick research
tower joined to a two-story glass and precast concrete panel administration wing. It
cost $1.2 million to build, and was financed by U.S. Public Health Service grants.
Monday will be given over to a tour of the new facilities and to the
meetings, one devoted to the center's biomedical work, the other to behavioral re-
search efforts, A news conference has been arranged for 1:30 p.m. In Room 209 of the
center,
The Primate Research Study section, the Primate Center Directors' organi-
zation, and the Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center external advisory committee
will hold separate sessions on Tuesday, also at the Wisconsin Center.

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