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*PFP has repeatedly contacted UCLA's Ringach and administration to get an explanation but as of 02/02/09, no response has been received.
Dario Ringach, a primate vivisector at UCLA was the focus of intense animal activist campaigning. In 2006, Ringach sent an e-mail with a subject line, "You win" and in the e-mail, claimed he would no longer experiment on primates. The local Los Angeles activists gave Ringach the benefit of the doubt and wanted to believe he was being honest and truthful and stopped their exciting campaign. However, three years later, a quick perusal of Ringach's website http://web.mac.com/darioringach/lab/Publications.html reveals a different story. Ringach has posted 11 articles that involve primate experimentation since sending the e-mail claiming he was quitting primate experimentation. When inquiring into the matter, Ringach responded with the following e-mail on January 6, 2009:
However, the articles submitted to the various medical journals by Ringach are dated 2007, 2008 and 2009. Ringach continues to receive federal grants with the same titles as his published articles. You can verify Ringach's federal grants awarded at: http://crisp.cit.nih.gov/ and you can find the amount of each grant (awarded per year) at http://report.nih.gov/award/state/state.cfm Below are Ringach's federal grants since his e-mail of 2006. His published articles clearly indicate primates were the test models and he continues to receive money thru 2008 for this same grant--originally awarded to experiment on primates. Also, Ringach's CRISP Abstracts reference 'Macaca fascicularis' also known as a long-tailed Macaque -- definately a primate.
*Quantative Studies of Cortical Visual Processing ** Theoretical studies of visual cortex
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