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Research animal retirement and lifetime care, now available through Alpha Genesis. Professionally managed lifetime care for retired research primates, with expert social reintroduction into stable outdoor groups led by veterinary staff deeply experienced in laboratory-animal medicine.
Learn moreCase study · Strategic portfolio pivot
When a global pharmaceutical company cancelled major immunology and infectious-disease programs, 425 healthy cynomolgus macaques were left with no planned scientific use. Alpha Genesis treated it not as 425 individual problems, but as a single, coordinated colony transition, with a comprehensive strategy developed in one week.
To a comprehensive, phased retirement plan
To outdoor social housing at Alpha Genesis
Projected 15-year colony cost the sponsor avoided
Following a major strategic portfolio review, a global pharmaceutical company cancelled several large immunology and infectious-disease development programs. The decision left 425 healthy cynomolgus macaques with no planned scientific use.
The operational pressure was immediate. Every additional month meant maintaining an inactive colony, dedicated staff, veterinary oversight, housing, biosecurity, and husbandry, while leadership worked toward a long-term solution.
Alpha Genesis responded immediately. Within the first week, veterinary leadership, operations personnel, logistics coordinators, behavioral specialists, and colony managers developed a comprehensive retirement strategy.
The team reviewed population demographics, medical histories, social-group compositions, transportation requirements, receiving capacity, and long-term veterinary planning, and managed the project as a single full-colony transition rather than animal by animal.
Because Alpha Genesis already maintained extensive NHP infrastructure, veterinary hospitals, experienced colony managers, behavioral specialists, diagnostic laboratories, enrichment programs, and 24-hour veterinary support, the company could respond rapidly, without constructing new facilities or building new operational teams.
Dedicated retirement housing was prepared in advance, so animals moved directly into professionally managed environments supported by experienced caregivers.
The transition drew on capabilities Alpha Genesis already operates at scale:
“We needed to move quickly on a colony of 425 animals, and Alpha Genesis made it remarkably straightforward. They built the entire strategy in about a week and managed it as one coordinated transition. They are genuinely easy to work with.”
What the sponsor avoided
Estimated cost of care avoided
Maintaining an inactive colony of this size could have cost approximately $3.7M–$5.1M annually, with projected long-term obligations exceeding $55M–$77M over 15 years, before capital expansion or administrative overhead. More importantly, the program turned an unexpected corporate challenge into a coordinated animal-welfare success, keeping the animals under professional veterinary supervision while the sponsor redirected scientific and financial resources toward its evolving pipeline.
Outcome
A biotech sponsor closed a multi-year immunology program and retired four socially bonded rhesus macaques, kept together, through a fast, fully coordinated transition.
Learn moreA 24-animal capuchin colony behind 20+ years of neuroscience research entered retirement with social groups preserved and individualized care continued.
Learn moreTell us about the animals you are planning to retire and your study-closeout timeline. Our veterinary and behavioral team will review the population and respond with a responsible, professionally managed path forward.