STOP UBC Animal Research, an animal advocacy group, held a protest outside the Vancouver Art Gallery to urge UBC to end research on non-human primates. It was aimed at a proposed experiment that plans to study the development of Parkinson's disease in monkeys.
The experiment, L91, would involve injecting four rhesus monkeys with the compound Lactacystin, which eventually leads to the onset of symptoms of Parkinson's disease.
"We feel that this type of research and end product is horrendous to us," said STOP spokesperson Anne Birthistle.