BRAIN Initiative: Marmosets for Neuroscience Research

Goal:

Both the BRAIN 2025 report as well as the draft report from the BRAIN Working Group 2.0 mention the need for research involving non-human primates to help us understand various circuits in the primate brain. While a number of different non-human primates have been used in neuroscience research, the macaque is clearly the most frequently used model today, but the marmoset is emerging as a useful model. This concept focuses only on the marmoset. One of the goals of this concept is to increase the number of marmosets that are available to the neuroscience research community. The second major goal of this concept is to continue the development of the tools and technologies for transgenic manipulation and characterization of marmosets.