Who Was Who? | Project R&R

April 7, 2012 • Posted in Fact Sheets and More

Christian R. Abee, DVM, MS, DACLAM

Carol Asvestas

Jarrod Bailey, PhD

Sarah (Sally) T. Boysen, PhD

  • Former Director of the Comparative Cognition Project at Ohio State University’s Chimpanzee Center (closed)

Linda Brent, PhD

  • Founder and Former President/Director of Chimp Haven
  • Former Director of Chimpanzee Enrichment at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research

Theodora Capaldo, EdD

  • Former President/Executive Director of the New England Anti-Vivisection Society
  • Current Trustee of the American Fund for Alternatives to Animal Research
  • Read her full bio here...

Martine Colette

Kathleen Conlee

Frederick Coulston, PhD

  • Former Founder and CEO of the now-closed Coulston Foundation

Lesley Day

  • Former Founder and President and Director of Chimps, Inc.

Frans de Waal, PhD

  • Former Professor in the Psychology Department at Emory University
  • Former Director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center

Debra Durham, PhD

  • Former Director of Behavior & Research at Save the Chimps

Jen Feuerstein

  • Former caregiver at Save the Chimps (and Yerkes) 
  • Co-founder of the Laboratory Primate Advocacy Group 
  • Former Member of Project R&R's Advisory Board

Deborah Fouts, MS

  • Former Director the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute at Central Washington University (closed)
  • Former Vice President of Friends of Washoe
  • Former Member of the Chimpanzee Collaboratory and Advisory Board for Project R&R

Roger Fouts, PhD

  • Former Director of the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute at Central Washington University  (closed)
  • Former Member of the Chimpanzee Collaboratory and Advisory Board for Project R&R

Jo Fritz

  • Former Director of the Primate Foundation of Arizona (closed)

J.F. Fulton

  • Researcher associated with the Yale Laboratories of Primate Biology

R. Allen Gardner, PhD

  • Former experimental psychologist specializing in cross fostering and language studies with chimpanzees, most notably Washoe

Jane Goodall, PhD

  • World renowned chimpanzee expert, establlished the Gombe Stream Reserve in Tanzania, Africa
  • Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute
  • Former Member of Project R&R's Advisory Board

Ray Greek, MD

  • Board certified in Anesthesiology with a sub-specialty in pain management
  • Co-founder of Americans For Medical Advancement (AFMA)

Gloria Grow

Thomas Insel, MD

Eric Kleiman

  • Former Director of research and investigations for In Defense of Animals
  • Led investigations on the Coulston Foundation, Charles River Laboratories at Alamogordo, and New Iberia Research Center’s whistle blower suit

Wolfgang Kohler, PhD

D. Rick Lee, DVM

James Mahoney, DVM

Tetsuro Matsuzawa, DSc

  • Professor of Language and Intelligence at the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University, Japan

Shirley McGreal, EdD

Nancy Megna

  • Spokesperson and program specialist for Project R&R
  • Former caregiver at both Yerkes and LEMSIP
  • Co-founder of the Laboratory Primate Advocacy Group
  • Read her full bio here...

Jan Moor-Jankowski, MD

  • Immunologist and former director of the now-closed Laboratory for Experimental Surgery and Medicine in Primates (LEMSIP) at New York University (NYU)

Michael Nichols

  • Staff photographer for National Geographic
  • His photographs from Brutal Kinship grace the pages of Project R&R’s website with his permission

Frank Noelker

  • Photographer and associate professor of art at the University of Connecticut
  • Produced Sacrificed Lives, a unique exhibit of chimpanzee portraits, many a part of the Project R&R materials with his permission

Carole Noon, PhD

  • Founder and former director of Save the Chimps, Fort Pierce,  FL
  • Former Member of the Chimpanzee Collaboratory and the Advisory Board for Project R&R

Francis Novembre, PhD

  • Research associate professor in the Division of Microbiology and Immunology of the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, research included using Jerom for HIV studies

Daniel Povinelli, PhD

  • Professor at the Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Louisiana at Lafayette conducted comparative studies of the mental lives of chimpanzees and human children

Alfred M. Prince, MD

  • Chairman, Hepatitis Research Center
  • Member-Founder of International Consortium for Blood Safety (ICBS)

Patti Ragan

  • Founder and director of the Center for Great Apes, Wachula, Florida
  • Former Member of Project R&R's Advisory Board

Liz Clancy Ross

  • Former Director of Special Projects for Doris Day Animal League, member of the Chimpanzee Collaboratory
  • Assisted the Center for Captive Chimpanzee Care (now Save the Chimps) in a successful lawsuit against the U.S. Air Force for permanent custody of 21 chimpanzees

Thomas J. Rowell, DVM

  • Former Director of the New Iberia Research Center at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

  • Former Researcher at Georgia State University’s Language Research Center, where cognitive and cultural research is conducted on bonobos, chimpanzees and rhesus macaques

Michael Seres

  • Chimpanzee management consultant 
  • Photographer whose photos grace the pages of Project R&R’s website with his permission 
  • Former member of Project R&R's Advisory Board 

Peter Singer, B. Phil

  • Philosopher, author, and professor
  • Founding member of the Great Ape Project, which seeks to persuade the United Nations to adopt its Declaration on Great Apes awarding personhood to nonhuman great apes

Senator Bob Smith

  • One of the lead sponsors of the CHIMP Act (signed into law in 2000)—the first law to prohibit killing of a non human species, chimpanzees, for the convenience of a lab and  to create a federally funded “retirement” system for chimpanzees no longer needed for research. Update: In 2007, The Chimp Haven is Home Act closed a loophole in the CHIMP Act which had allowed chimpanzee to be returned to research under certain circumstances. Chimpanzees now have permanent protection and cannot be returned to research once they are retired—an accomplishment consistent with Senator Smith’s original goal with the CHIMP Act.
  • Former Member of Project R&R's Advisory Board

Tony Smith

  • Co-founder of Great Ape Standing and Personhood (GRASP), a panel to promote recognition of personhood for great apes
  • President of the Fauna Sanctuary, the U.S. affiliate of Fauna Foundation, Canada

Sheri Speede, DVM

  • Founder/director of the Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Center in Cameroon
  • Director of In Defense of Animals-Africa
  • Former Member of Project R&R's Advisory Board

John Strandberg, DVM, PhD

  • Former director of Division of Comparative Medicine for the National Center for the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) at NIH, and once a key figure in policy-making on chimpanzees in research, who acknowledged in a public forum that a ban on chimpanzee research “wouldn’t surprise me”

Geza P. Teleki, PhD

  • Primatologist and founder of the Committee for Conservation and Care of Chimpanzees (CCCC)

Herbert S. Terrace, PhD

  • A former psychology professor at Columbia University who conducted language research studies on chimpanzee Nim Chimpsky

April Truitt

  • Founder and former director of the Primate Rescue Center
  • Former member of Project R&R's Advisory Board

Edward Tyson

  • England’s leading anatomist in the late 1600’s; referred to as the “father of primatology"

John L. VandeBerg, PhD

David A. Washburn, PhD

  • Former director of the Language Research Center at Georgia State University

Lisa Wathne

  • Former captive exotic animal specialist at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

Rachel Weiss, JD

Steven Wise, JD

  • Attorney, founder and president of the Center for the Expansion of Fundamental Rights/Nonhuman Rights Project

Richard Wrangham, PhD

  • Professor of biological anthropology at Harvard University who has extensive experience studying free-living chimpanzee cultures

Robert Mearns Yerkes, PhD

  • Psychobiologist who conducted comparative research with gorillas and chimpanzees
  • Founded the first nonhuman primate research laboratory in the U.S. in 1929, namesake of the Yerkes National Primate Research Center

Stuart Zola, PhD

  • Former director of Yerkes National Primate Research Center

Miscellaneous:

  • Committee on Long-Term Care of Chimpanzees (NRC Report)
  • Dani P. Bolognesi, Duke University
  • Thomas M. Butler, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research
  • Philip Davies, Merck Research Laboratories
  • Neal L. First, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Nathan R. Flesness, International Species Information System
  • Patricia Fultz, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • Peter Theran, Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
  • Sarah Williams-Blangero, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research
  • Lilly-Marlene Russow

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