PETA Praises NIH’s $87M for New Human-Relevant Research Center

For Immediate Release:
September 25, 2025

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Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382

Washington –

Please see the following statement from PETA neuroscientist and Director of Science Advancement and Outreach Dr. Emily Trunnell, regarding the National Institutes of Health announcement that has awarded $87 million in contracts for the first three years of its groundbreaking Standardized Organoid Modeling Center, a national resource dedicated to using and developing cutting-edge technologies for biomedical research instead of painful and worthless experiments on animals:

PETA today praises the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Jay Bhattacharya and Nicole C. Kleinstreuer, acting deputy director, for this important and historic step toward sound biomedical research, proving that the pursuit of science need not be devoid of compassion. Make no mistake, this center will save countless animal lives while developing reproducible research methods that will lead to far quicker positive results for human patients in need. PETA lobbied the agency for exactly this common-sense move in 2023 and the new administration is taking concrete steps to implement its bold and necessary vision for shifting biomedical research away from pointless and cruel experiments on animals. While applauding NIH, PETA continues to urge Congress to enact legislation to implement our Research Modernization NOW plan, a roadmap for replacing experiments on animals with human-relevant methods, which includes ending funding for experiments on animals where they have most often failed to deliver human relevant results and pass the Cease Animal Research Grants Overseas (CARGO) Act, which would stop NIH from funding any experiments on animals overseas.

An emaciated beagle at Altasciences. Image obtained by PETA through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—points out that Every Animal Is Someone and offers free Empathy Kits for people who need a lesson in kindness. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow PETA on X, Facebook, or Instagram.