ASP Melinda Novak Primate Welfare Grant
ASP Melinda Novak Primate Welfare Grant supports researchers testing innovative welfare ideas to improve nonhuman primates' lives in captive, semi-free-ranging, and wild settings.
Funder: American Society of Primatologists
Due Dates: February 1, 2027 (Applications open) | May 10, 2027 (Application deadline) | May 24, 2027 (Recommendation letters)
Funding Amounts: Up to $2,000 per grant
Summary: Supports innovative, hypothesis-driven research that improves nonhuman primate welfare in captive, semi-free-ranging, and wild settings.
Key Information: Applicants must be current ASP members with an institutional affiliation; students must have a sponsor or mentor.
Description
The American Society of Primatologists (ASP), through its Primate Care Committee, supports highly impactful and innovative research designed to improve the lives of nonhuman primates. Proposals should test hypotheses about developing or piloting new welfare-based ideas and evaluating their impact in captive, semi-free-ranging, or wild settings.
Research interests include innovative enrichment and husbandry, clinical or behavioral treatments, positive reinforcement training, new technologies as welfare tools, and concepts directly affecting wild primate welfare. Projects may also investigate how environmental factors and social composition affect behavior, health, and welfare, or develop innovative noninvasive measures of health and well-being. A direct welfare focus is required: projects focused purely on conservation or basic research are ineligible. An optional education or outreach component may be included if its success is evaluated.
