Foreign Labs Still Abusing Dogs, Primates, and Other Animals in NIH-Funded Testing

Over 300 animal testing laboratories in 42 foreign countries have active approval to receive funding from the National Institutes of Health for tests on dogs, primates, cats, and other species, according to a new analysis by the watchdog White Coat Waste based on government databases and records it obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.

While earlier this year the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cut some animal tests exposed by WCW at China Medical University, the current list of NIH-approved foreign labs still includes 18 in China and nearly 300 in other countries.

Several of the animal testing facilities in China eligible for NIH funding are owned by a company called Pharmaron, which recently had a federal contract to test experimental drugs on 300 “cute” beagles each week.

In May, the Trump Administration chose not to renew the contract after WCW brought it to their attention.

Among the other NIH-approved Chinese animal labs are Peking University and the University of Hong Kong. Both have collaborated with China’s People’s Liberation Army for deadly experiments on beagles.

Chinese labs run by WuXi AppTec are also still eligible for NIH animal testing funds, even though Republicans and Democrats have proposed legislation to block the company from federal funds due to its troubling ties to the Chinese military.

Records obtained by WCW detail funding for cocaine addiction tests on beagles by a pharmaceutical company in Australia called Kinoxis Therapeutics, which was renewed in July 2025 and given another $405,000 by NIH. Gateway Pundit reported in March 2025 on federal funding for Australian animal labs.

WCW’s investigation also exposed cruel animal tests in North American countries.

New NIH grant documents obtained by WCW and shared exclusively with Gateway Pundit detail painful experiments aimed at infecting monkeys on the Caribbean island of Saint Kitts with a flea-borne spotted fever. The grant to Ross University researchers runs until March 2026 and has received $105,000.

Canada’s Dalhousie University collaborated with NIH-funded researchers at Georgia Tech and MIT on tests in which one-month-old kittens had their eyelids sewn shut and were raised in darkness to induce vision disorders. The researchers then injected neurotoxins into their eyes and killed and dissected them. These grants are active until the middle of next year.

WCW uncovered how the University of Sherbrooke in Canada also worked with Georgia Tech to damage cats’ spinal cords, implant electrodes, and make them walk on treadmills in multi-million-dollar NIH-funded tests. The NIH grant paying for this cat experiment was renewed in July 2025 and awarded $533,961, bringing its total to $3.3 million to date.

Georgia Tech researchers also worked with a laboratory in Russia to brutally amputate healthy cats’ legs to test prosthetics.

All Russian animal labs have had their eligibility for taxpayer funding cut following WCW investigations and their work with Congress.

In January, Gateway Pundit reported about an NIH-funded researcher at Vanderbilt University who collaborated with a sanctioned university in Iran on cruel brain experiments on monkeys.

Following WCW investigations and lobbying, the House and Senate voted to cut NIH and Department of War funding for animal labs in China, Russia, Iran, and other “countries of concern.” An ongoing WCW lawsuit is also challenging an illegal NIH loophole that exempts foreign animal labs from oversight.

In May, the Trump Administration ended secretive pass-through funding for foreign animal labs, like Dr. Fauci’s grant to EcoHealth Alliance that funded gain-of-function at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

President Trump’s Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought cited Fauci’s funding for the Wuhan lab, which was first uncovered by WCW in April 2020, as the justification for a proposed 40 percent NIH budget.

However, the agency has continued to endorse and fund animal testing in China and dozens of other foreign countries.

WCW president and founder Anthony Bellotti urged President Donald Trump to take action:

“White Coat Waste’s Worldwide Waste campaign was the first to expose Dr. Fauci’s reckless funding for the Wuhan lab and beagle torture in Tunisia, and we’ve continued to follow federal money to abusive labs around the globe that torture dogs, cats, primates and other animals. With Wuhan, we learned the hard way that shipping American tax dollars to unaccountable foreign animal labs is a recipe for disaster. Secretary Kennedy and the Trump administration can end the NIH’s wasteful foreign aid with the stroke of a pen by canceling these animal labs’ eligibility for U.S taxpayer funding. The solution is simple: Stop the money. Stop the madness!”

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