PI:    Joe Kemnitz

Key collaborators:

Project Title:   internet Primate Aging Database (iPAD)

Area of research (eg. Behavior, cognition, biomechanics, systematics, genomics, etc.):  data collection

Please provide brief (1-3 sentences) answers to the following questions:

1. What is your main research question?
   iPAD is always trying to add additional species to the database.
2. Briefly describe  your project design.
   The internet Primate Aging Database (iPAD) is a multi-centered, relational database of biological variables in aging, captive nonhuman primates.. iPAD provides an invaluable veterinary and clinical resource, and can generate normative data for numbers of animals across research settings. iPAD now contains over 800,000 data points for body weight, blood chemistry and hematology, for healthy, non-experimental subjects across time.
3. How will working with lemurs/lemur samples help achieve your research goals?
   The lemur data is a wonderful addition to our data set.  Prior to adding Duke Lemur Center data, there were no lemur species or Prosimians in iPAD.
4. What interesting results  have you found?
   Once the data has been entered, it will be incredibly valuable  as a veterinary and clinical tool as well as establishing new biomarkers of aging.
5. Relevant/recent publications:
   None that we are aware of