Ventilated Caging System to Improve Housing Capacity, Flexibility, and Air Qualit

通风笼式系统可提高住房容量、灵活性和空气质量

• 批准号: 8184218
• 负责人: Joseph O Matu
• 金额: $ 49.11万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-06-01 至 2013-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8184218
• 关键词: Address; Air; Animal Model; Animals; Award; Budgets; Censuses; Commit; Disease; Environment; Faculty; Funding; Future; Grant; Growth; Housing; National Center for Research Resources; Recruitment Activity; Research; Research Personnel; Rodent; Safety; System; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Water; animal facility; design; flexibility; improved; meetings; operation

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Cincinnati (UC) is a premier public research university committed to continued growth of its research enterprise. NCRR has recently awarded $8.4 million and UC has committed $3.2 million to renovate the oldest and most heavily used of our animal facilities (G20RR030832). Renovation will more than double capacity for that facility with the use of the MACS 160 Gentle Air Caging Systems (racks) for which the facility was designed. With our current census we are at capacity using less efficient racks, and can only budget for gradual replacement / expansion without the ability to accommodate the needs of the remodeled facility and new faculty hires. In short, we will soon have a brand new animal facility without the ability to expand into the new space. There is an urgent need, therefore, to obtain rodent racks that will allow us to begin to utilize the new facility, increase animal capacity, maximize flexibility in rodent housing, increase efficiencies for labor, energy, and water, improve operation safety and enhance indoor environmental air quality while improving the micro-environment of the rodents. Unless these unmet needs are addressed, UC will be unable to fully utilize the renovated facility, provide sustained barrier-level rodent housing, or guarantee disease-free animal models for continued grant-funded research, thereby jeopardizing our ability to recruit and retain outstanding researchers and meet the future needs of (primarily NIH-sponsored) grant-funded projects.

描述（由申请人提供）：辛辛那提大学（UC）是一所一流的公立研究型大学，致力于其研究企业的持续增长。NCRR最近拨款840万美元，UC已承诺320万美元用于翻新我们最古老和使用最频繁的动物设施（G20 RR 030832）。改造将增加一倍以上的能力，该设施与使用的MACS 160温和的空气笼系统（机架），该设施的设计。根据我们目前的人口普查，我们正在使用效率较低的机架，只能为逐步更换/扩展编制预算，而无法满足改造后的设施和新员工的需求。简而言之，我们很快就会有一个全新的动物设施，但没有能力扩展到新的空间。因此，迫切需要获得啮齿动物架，其将允许我们开始利用新设施，增加动物容量，最大化啮齿动物饲养的灵活性，提高劳动力、能量和水的效率，提高操作安全性并提高室内环境空气质量，同时改善啮齿动物的微环境。除非这些未满足的需求得到解决，否则加州大学将无法充分利用翻新后的设施，提供持续的屏障级啮齿动物住房，或保证无疾病的动物模型用于继续资助的研究，从而危及我们招募和留住优秀研究人员的能力，并满足（主要是NIH赞助的）资助项目的未来需求。