DSU Renovation Core

DSU 改造核心

• 批准号: 8461869
• 负责人: Leonard George Davis
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 至
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8461869
• 关键词: Accreditation; Address; Agriculture; American; Animal Housing; Animal Technicians; Animals; Area; Autopsy; Beds; Biomedical Research; Breeding; Caring; Centers of Research Excellence; Certification; Commit; Delaware; Domestic Fowls; Environmental Monitoring; Euthanasia; Faculty; Floor; Funding; Growth; Housing; Humidity; IACUC; Immune; Institution; Laboratory Animal Science; Laboratory Animals; Livestock; Maintenance; Monitor; Mus; Natural Resources; Neurosciences; Neurosciences Research; Pilot Projects; Plants; Plumbing; Positioning Attribute; Procedures; Rattus; Recruitment Activity; Research; Research Infrastructure; Research Personnel; Resources; Rodent; Science; Specimen; Sterilization; System; Temperature; Training Programs; Transgenic Mice; Universities; animal care; animal facility; animal resource; building renovation; experience; meetings; member; named group; programs; sample fixation; square foot

PROJECT SUMMARY: The objective of this core is to provide a significant upgrade to the existing laboratory animal facilities at Delaware State University (DSU) to meet the demand of a growing research faculty. While the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources at DSU maintains significant poultry and large animal facilities for their livestock research, small animal facilities for biomedical research are sorely lacking on our campus. Currently, rodent facilities at DSU consist of a single room in the Mishoe Science Center that can only be used to house a few animals of a single species for a day or two prior to euthanasia. To address this critical lack in the infrastructure for biomedical research, the University has committed a 1650 square foot space in the former Herbarium building for renovation into an American Association for the Advancement of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC)-compliant rodent housing facility. The proposed renovation will remove existing shelving installed to hold plant specimens and divide the 1650 sq ft space into five separate rooms. These will include three holding rooms to allow simultaneous housing of rats and mice, as well as a special populations room for animals that need to be isolated. The renovated space will also include a preparative/cage-wash area, a procedure room outfitted for necropsy and an office area for an animal care technician. In order to meet AAALAC requirements for animal housing, the windows will be removed, and the doors, ceiling, floor, plumbing, electrical and HVAC system will ali be upgraded. Upon completion of the renovation, the animal facility will be equipped with cages and a cage wash/sterilization apparatus, and the animal housing rooms will be equipped with a temperature/humidity monitoring system. Once the renovation is complete, Delaware State University will maintain the facility and apply for AAALAC accreditation for it.

项目概要： 该核心的目标是对特拉华州州立大学（DSU）现有的实验室动物设施进行重大升级，以满足不断增长的研究人员的需求。虽然农业和自然资源部门在DSU保持重要的家禽和大型动物设施，他们的牲畜研究，小动物生物医学研究设施是非常缺乏在我们的校园。目前，DSU的啮齿动物设施包括Mishoe科学中心的一个房间，只能用于在安乐死前一两天安置单一物种的几只动物。为了解决生物医学研究基础设施的严重缺乏，该大学已承诺在前植物标本馆大楼内提供1650平方英尺的空间，用于改造成美国实验动物护理促进协会（AAALAC）合规的啮齿动物住房设施。拟议的翻新将拆除现有的架子安装举行植物标本，并分为五个独立的房间1650平方英尺的空间。这些设施将包括三个可同时饲养大鼠和小鼠的饲养室，以及一个用于需要隔离的动物的特殊种群室。翻新后的空间还将包括一个准备/笼清洗区，一个为尸检配备的手术室和一个动物护理技术人员的办公区。为了满足AAALAC对动物舍的要求，将拆除窗户，并对门、天花板、地板、管道、电气和HVAC系统进行升级。改造完成后，动物设施将配备笼具和笼具清洗/灭菌设备，动物饲养室将配备温度/湿度监测系统。一旦改造完成，特拉华州州立大学将维护该设施，并申请AAALAC认证。