Activism & Animals Active Updated Sep 2, 2026
The University of Minnesota primate lab collapse
Where it stands, Sep 2, 2026 The University of Minnesota confirmed to PETA that experimenter Geoff Ghose no longer works with nonhuman primates, after a monkey named Samwise suffered a headpost failure that left a roughly two-thirds-inch opening in his skull and USDA inspectors found Ghose kept no individual implant records.
PETA pressure led the University of Minnesota to confirm that experimenter Geoff Ghose no longer works with nonhuman primates, after years of cranial-implant failures and missing safety records in his rhesus macaque lab. PETA says similar problems have surfaced in two other university primate labs. This storyline tracks whether the university acts on those labs and whether Ghose's program is formally shut down.
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Sep 2, 2026 Latest
The University of Minnesota confirmed to PETA that experimenter Geoff Ghose no longer works with nonhuman primates, after a monkey named Samwise suffered a headpost failure that left a roughly two-thirds-inch opening in his skull and USDA inspectors found Ghose kept no individual implant records. The university's animal care committee had suspended his protocols on May 22, 2026.
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