Bipartisan group of Michigan lawmakers asks NIH to stop funding Wayne State beagle testing

By: Ben Solis

Outlets: Michigan Advance

Published: February 9, 2026

Words: 465

Last Updated: 3 weeks ago

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A Republican state representative is leading a group of Michigan legislators in asking the National Institutes of Health to stop funding medical experiments on beagles at Wayne State University.

Since 1991, the university has experimented on beagle dog breeds in which medical devices are implanted and they are forced to run on treadmills until they have heart attacks, the lawmakers said in a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. …

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