Foreign Labs Still Abuse Dogs, Primates, and Other Animals in NIH-Funded Testing | The Gateway Expert | by Cassandra MacDonald

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

While earlier this year the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) canceled a number of animal tests revealed 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.

Some 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 every week.

In May, the Trump administration chose cannot be renewed the contract after WCW brought it to their attention.

The other NIH-approved Chinese animal laboratories include Peking University and the University of Hong Kong. Both collaborated with the Chinese People’s Liberation Army on deadly experiments on beagles.

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

Data obtained by WCW details the funding of cocaine addiction testing on beagles by a pharmaceutical company in Australia called Kinoxis Therapeutics, which was renewed in July 2025 and received an additional $405,000 from the NIH. Gateway Pundit reported on federal funding for Australian animal laboratories in March 2025.

WCW’s investigation also revealed cruel animal testing in North American countries.

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

Canadian Dalhousie University worked together with NIH-funded researchers from Georgia Tech and MIT on tests in which the eyelids of one-month-old kittens were sewn shut and raised in the dark to induce vision disorders. The researchers then injected neurotoxins into their eyes, killing and dissecting them. These subsidies are active until the middle of next year.

WCW exposed how the University of Sherbrooke in Canada also teamed up with Georgia Tech to damage cats’ spinal cords, implant electrodes and make them run on treadmills in multimillion-dollar NIH-funded tests. The NIH grant for this cat experiment was extended in July 2025 and awarded $533,961, bringing the total to date to $3.3 million.

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

All Russian animal laboratories were eligible taxpayer funding is reduced following WCW investigations and their work with Congress.

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

After WCW investigations and lobbying, the House and Senate voted to cut spending NIH and the War Department provide funding for animal laboratories in China, Russia, Iran, and other “countries of concern.” An ongoing WCW lawsuit also challenges one illegal loophole in NIH law that exempts foreign laboratory animal laboratories from supervision.

In May, the Trump administration ended secret flow-on funding for foreign animal labs, such as Dr. Fauci to the EcoHealth Alliance that funded the gain-of-function at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

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

However, the agency has continued to support and fund animal testing in China and dozens of other 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 the torture of beagles in Tunisia, and we have continued to track federal money to abuse labs around the world that torture dogs, cats, primates and other animals. With Wuhan, we learned the hard way that it sending American tax dollars to unaccountable foreign animal labs is a recipe for disaster. Secretary Kennedy and the Trump Administration can, with the stroke of a pen, end the NIH’s wasteful foreign aid by canceling the eligibility of these animal laboratories for U.S. taxpayer funding. The solution is simple: put the money away. Stop the madness!”