IMPROVING INSTITUTIONAL ANIMAL RESOURCES

改善机构动物资源

• 批准号: 6600070
• 负责人: HOWARD B DICKLER
• 金额: $ 53.42万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-02-01 至 2005-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6600070
• 关键词: Rodentias; animal care; animal colony; biomedical equipment; building /facility design /renovation

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application for facilities improvement will enable the UMB to continue to develop the campus' overall animal care and use program by providing both fixed and moveable equipment in support of the Howard Hall sixth floor animal facilities renovation project. The renovation project will enhance the existing resources available to research faculty and provide additional animal research support space needed as a result of the expansion of research space at UMB. Specifically, this request will provide additional high density caging systems and related cage changing hoods to meet increasing demand for mouse housing and provide critical infrastructure equipment for the cage washing operation and fixed equipment supporting the Clinical and Diagnostic Veterinary Pathology program component. There are approximately 350 PHS- and non-PHS-funded Principal Investigators (PIs) utilizing laboratory animals. UMB is a separate campus under the University System of Maryland and receives in excess of $100 million in laboratory animal based research projects. Of the $100 million, PHS funds approximately $95 million with the balance of approximately $5 million derived from non-PHS sources. Veterinary Resources at UMB is continuing to operate, develop, and refine centralized animal resources program. This program provides for animal ordering, husbandry, management, and veterinary care for all animal research activities conducted in the Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, and Veteran's Administration. These facilities are all fully AAALAC accredited. The aims of this application are to meet long-term goals of ensuring the humane care and use of laboratory animals, provide state of the art caging systems and infrastructure critical equipment for funded and pending PHS and non-PHS projects that will occupy the renovated Howard Hall sixth floor facility, comply with both PHS and United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) standards of animal care, to improve the overall efficiency of the operation, and to provide a healthy and safe environment for UMB staff. To accomplish these goals, National Institutes of Health (NIH) support is requested to provide additional high density mouse caging systems and cage changing and animal manipulation safety cabinets, to provide the critical and essential wash room support equipment for the Howard Hall sixth floor renovations project and to provide essential equipment to support the veterinary pathology program.

描述（由申请人提供）： 这项设施改善申请将使UMB能够继续发展校园的整体动物护理和使用计划，提供固定和移动设备，以支持霍华德大厅六楼动物设施改造项目。 该改造项目将增加研究人员的现有资源，并提供额外的动物研究支持空间，因为UMB的研究空间扩大了。 具体而言，该申请将提供额外的高密度笼系统和相关的换笼罩，以满足对小鼠饲养的日益增长的需求，并提供用于笼清洗操作的关键基础设施设备和支持临床和诊断兽医病理学项目组成部分的固定设备。 大约有350名PHS和非PHS资助的主要研究者（PI）使用实验室动物。 UMB是马里兰州大学系统下的一个独立校区，并在实验室动物研究项目中获得超过1亿美元的资金。 在这1亿美元中，小灵通提供了约9 500万美元的资金，其余约500万美元来自非小灵通来源。 UMB的兽医资源部门将继续运营、开发和完善集中动物资源项目。 该计划为医学，牙科，药学和退伍军人管理学院进行的所有动物研究活动提供动物订购，饲养，管理和兽医护理。 这些设施都得到了AAALAC的全面认证。 本申请的目的是满足确保人道护理和使用实验室动物的长期目标，为已资助和待批准的PHS和非PHS项目提供最先进的笼舍系统和基础设施关键设备，这些项目将占用翻修后的霍华德厅六楼设施，符合PHS和美国农业部（USDA）动物护理标准，提高整体运作效率，并为员工提供健康及安全的工作环境。为了实现这些目标，要求美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）提供额外的高密度小鼠笼系统和换笼和动物操作安全柜，为霍华德厅六楼翻修项目提供关键和必要的洗手间支持设备，并提供必要的设备来支持兽医病理学项目。