The Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University, where the illegal use of research funds related to the construction of chimpanzee breeding facilities became a major problem, was virtually dismantled and reorganized.Kyoto University reorganized the Primate Research Institute into the Human Behavior Evolution Research Center (tentative name) after making the Inuyama district of Inuyama City, Aichi Prefecture, which is occupied by the Primate Research Institute, the Kyoto University Inuyama Campus, and changed some departments. It is going to move to another organization.As a result, the name of the world-famous Primate Research Institute disappears.
According to Kyoto University, from April 2022, three departments of the Primate Research Institute, including two departments whose research expenses and dissertations were confirmed to be fraudulent, will be abolished, and the other four departments will be replaced by the Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University. , Move to another department such as Wildlife Research Center.
Five departments, including the Human Evolution Model Research Center and the International Joint Advanced Research Center, have moved to the Human Behavior Evolution Research Center, and the Human Behavior Evolution Research Center will promote the breeding of animals such as the chimpanzee eye with the cooperation of related departments.
The Kyoto University Inuyama Campus will establish a steering council consisting of multiple departments, including the Human Behavior Evolution Research Center, and will decide all matters including management.
The Primate Research Institute was established in 1967.Masao Kawai, who is said to be a pioneer in primate research in Japan, has been a member of successive directors and has been conducting cutting-edge research that leads the world in primate research.However, in 2020, Kyoto University announced that the former director and others had illegally spent about 5 million yen on research expenses related to equipment maintenance, and dismissed a total of six people including the former director.The former director has filed a lawsuit in the Kyoto District Court seeking confirmation of his status as a professor.
reference:[Kyoto University] Direction of reorganization of Primate Research Institute
