GRAVES HALL VIVARIUM RENOVATION

俄亥俄州立大学致力于追求动物研究的卓越标准。获得并保持实验动物护理认可与评估协会(AAALAC)的认可是该大学衡量这一目标完成情况的手段之一。大学实验动物资源(ULAR)成立于1990年7月1日，旨在整合和集中大学哥伦布校区和3个校外地点的所有生物医学动物研究的动物护理计划。所有人员、设备和设施都从各自的学院转移到ULAR。ULL支持美国最大的大学动物护理项目之一，包括14个独立的动物设施，哥伦布校园内的3个外科手术和4个校外地点，支持121所大学、7所学校和研究生院的教职员工的动物研究。在2000财年，ULAR为300多名原则性调查人员提供了681多项动物方案的动物资源服务。在俄亥俄州立大学，大约74%的动物使用发生在主校园建筑群的五个独立的里。最大的隔膜怀斯曼大厅，最近进行了自1968年建成以来的首次升级。我们在主校区的第二大隔间，格雷夫斯大厅，建于1970年，也需要升级和翻新，以适应动物护理服务中发生的巨大变化。为了对俄亥俄州立大学使用的研究动物保持高标准的护理，并为调查人员提供能够容纳今天研究中使用的动物的设施，这些动物可能是免疫受损的、生物危险的、放射性的或长期持有的，格雷夫斯动物设施必须进行翻新。如果不在不久的将来得到纠正，执法人员已经发现了设施中的问题区域，这些问题可能会影响我们维持AAALAC认证的能力。因此，这一设施在ULAR具有最高的翻修优先事项。这项提案将提供这种翻新，并允许俄亥俄州立大学为研究动物提供优质的动物收容所。

The Ohio State University is committed to pursue a standard of excellence in animal research. Attaining and maintaining accreditation by the Association for the Accreditation and Assessment of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC) is one of the means used by the University to measure accomplishment of this objective. The University Laboratory Animal Resources (ULAR) was formed in its present configuration on July 1, 1990 to consolidate and centralize the animal care program for all biomedical animal research on the University's Columbus campus and 3 off-campus locations. All personnel, equipment, and facilities were transferred from their respective colleges to ULAR. ULAR supports one of the nation's largest university animal care programs of 14 separate animal facilities, 3 surgeries on the Columbus campus and 4 off-campus locations, supporting animal research for the faculty of 121 colleges, 7 schools, and the Graduate School. In fiscal year 2000, ULAR provided animal resource services to over 300 principled investigators with over 681 animal protocols. Approximately 74 percent of the animal use at The Ohio State University occurs on the main campus complex in five separate vivaria. The largest vivarium Wiseman Hall, was recently upgraded for the first time since it was built in 1968. Our second largest vivarium on the main campus, Graves Hall, was built in 1970 and is also in need of upgrade and renovation to accommodate the tremendous changes that have occurred in the "state of the ar5t" care available for animals. In order to maintain a high standard of care for the research animals used at The Ohio State University, and provide the investigators with facilities that are capable of housing the animals used in research today that may be immunocompromised, biohazardous, radioactive, or in long-term holding, the Graves animal facility must be renovated. ULAR personnel have identified problem areas in the facility which may compromise our ability to maintain AAALAC accreditation if not corrected in the near future. This facility therefore has the highest renovation priority in ULAR. This proposal will provide for this renovation and allow The Ohio State University to provide quality animal housing for the research animals.