Physical Facility Expansion for the OUHSC Baboon Breedi*

描述(由申请人提供)： 俄克拉荷马大学健康科学中心是一所新兴的优秀机构，部分原因是通过NCRR成功竞争了3个生物医学研究卓越中心(COBRE)奖。OUHSC还被公认为PHS美洲原住民卓越中心(COE)(D34 MB03011-11)。这项申请是由OUHSC浣熊研究资源咨询委员会批准的战略计划的第二阶段。我们的使命是为生物医学和行为研究提供狒狒资源，以回报狒狒作为动物模型。我们支持OUHSC的研究人员，并通过支持美国各地的众多研究人员作为国家资源。这一资源使NIH资助的研究人员能够为他们的研究项目获得狒狒，并与浣熊资源分包，在 OUHSC或租赁这些鸵鸟进行它们的研究，然后将它们送回繁殖的蜂群。与俄克拉荷马州立大学兽医学院和 在健康科学和得克萨斯理工大学健康科学中心的帮助下，我们继续发展和改进狒狒作为动物模型。我们请求资金用于建造更多的狒狒设施，以允许扩大由NIH、NCRR、P-40和R-24赠款支持的OHSC浣熊繁育计划。我们的06年是从狒狒繁育和研究计划开始的，02年是从SPF计划开始的，我们迫切需要扩大我们的物理设施，以适应我们的狒狒计划的成功发展。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center is an institution of emerging excellence, in part as the result of having successfully competed for 3 Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) awards through NCRR. OUHSC is also recognized as a PHS Native American Center of Excellence (COE) (D34 MB03011-11). This application is the second phase of a strategic plan endorsed by the OUHSC Baboon Research Resource Advisory Committee. Our mission is to provide baboon resources for biomedical and behavioral research requiting the baboon as the animal model. We support research investigators at the OUHSC and serve as a national resource by supporting numerous investigators located across the United States. This resource enables NIH funded investigators to obtain baboons for their research programs, subcontract with the Baboon Resource to conduct the study on location at the OUHSC or lease the baboons for conducting their studies then returning the baboons to the breeding colony. Together with the Oklahoma State University College of Veterinary Medicine and Center for Health Sciences, and the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, we continue to develop and improve the baboon as an animal model. We request funds for construction of additional baboon facilities to permit expansion of the OUHSC Baboon Breeding Program supported by NIH, NCRR, P-40 and R-24 Grants. We are starting our 06-year with the baboon breeding and research program and year 02 with the SPF program and we desperately need to enlarge our physical facilities to accommodate the successful growth of our baboon program.