State-of-the-art housing to expand the Emory National Primate Research Center SPF rhesus macaque breeding colony

最先进的住房用于扩大埃默里国家灵长类研究中心 SPF 恒河猴繁殖群

• 批准号: 10795471
• 负责人: Joyce Kimberly Cohen
• 金额: $ 799.61万
• 依托单位: EMORY UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-06 至 2028-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10795471
• 关键词: Address; Animal Housing; Animal Welfare; Animals; Breeding; Genetic; Housing; Human Resources; Macaca mulatta; Primates; Program Research Project Grants; Research; Research Personnel; Running; design; improved; nonhuman primate; novel; social group

Abstract The robust nonhuman primate research portfolio at the Emory National Primate Research Center (ENPRC), which reached $36.8M in FY2022, has placed significant and unsustainable demands on the Emory NPRC rhesus macaque SPF breeding colony. To meet the current and projected future research demand, ENPRC is proposing to build new animal housing at the ENPRC Field Station to facilitate expansion of the SPF breeding colony. The new animal housing proposed will be a novel housing design that integrates traditional large indoor/ outdoor breeding spaces into a building that includes smaller run housing space as well as animal support space. The run housing will be comprised of traditional indoor run space with accompanying enlarged outdoor run space to facilitate larger social groupings. This combination of compound and run space will maximize breeding potential and facilitate targeted genetic breeding in run groups to support specific research requests and enable colony management needs. The new building will enhance animal welfare with natural substrate in the runs as well as the outdoor compound and include functional features incorporated into the design that will improve animal handling and increase efficiency for personnel. The proposed new animal housing at the Field Station will allow for significant expansion of the SPF rhesus macaque colony over the next five years, thus providing additional animals to support the current research and projected research program for investigators at Emory NPRC as well as for external collaborators to address the nationwide shortage of NHPs for research.

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