Welcome to ORIP

According to his mother, Dr. Jonathan B. Clayton (Figure 1) has been fascinated by nonhuman primates (NHPs) since he was in diapers.

The National Natural Toxins Research Center (NNTRC) is a unique animal and biological material resource center organized to support basic and translational research on venomous snakes and their venoms. The NNTRC is the only federally funded viper resource center in the United States.

Many areas of biological research—including immunology, metabolic disorders, neurology, infectious disease, cancer, and translational microbiome research—require a well-controlled environment to study the role of the microbiome and host–microbe interactions.

In the past 20 years, two sarbecoviruses—SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2—have caused major disease outbreaks in humans. Researchers are interested in developing pan-sarbecovirus vaccines with stronger cross-neutralizing protective effects to resist viral evolution and prevent future outbreaks.

After spending his youth in rural Colorado, Dr. Drew Koch combined his interest in science with his childhood experiences to pursue a career in veterinary medicine.

Scientific and health innovations rely on continuous access to cutting-edge technology and instruments. Dr. Birgit Schilling, Professor, Buck Institute for Research on Aging, and Director of the Proteomics Core and Mass Spectrometry Center, knows this better than most.