ANIMAL FACILITY IMPROVEMENTS FOR SMALL RESEARCH PROGRAMS

1984年，爱达荷州立大学被指定为 国家健康和医疗相关事务。这个新的机构 角色和使命极大地改变了 大学在过去的几年里，大学致力于 大量资金用于支持新的教员和项目扩展 文理学院、健康相关专业学院和 药学院。此外，爱达荷州(州董事会 教育)建立了高等教育研究理事会(HERC)，该理事会 开始为个别教职员工和研究人员提供研究支持 以每年为基础的中心。上述努力的结果是刺激 爱达荷州的研究在爱达荷州州立大学很明显 在过去的几年里。研究拨款提案有所增加 在这段时间和教职员工研究项目和 研究生培训项目预计将在未来大幅增长 随着新的调查人员的建立。 由于上述对卓越和增长的承诺， 研究活动，爱达荷州州立大学动物设施也 经历了相当大的增长，在总体上发挥着越来越大的作用 该大学的研究图片。路易斯安那州立大学动物福利委员会 (相当于美国农业部IACUC)在改进方面非常成功 I.S.U的动物保护和使用政策，并提高对动物的认识 关于动物设施的重要性的行政当局 显著增强制度保障。自提交 这项提案的前一个版本，I.S.U动物设施已经实现了 AAALAC的完全认证，已经建造了一个无菌手术室， 机构支持的改进的第二阶段即将到来 完成了。然而，尽管最近有了许多改善，I.S.U。 年，动物设施在其主要资源区缺乏笼子清洗系统 生命科学综合体。这项提议是为了建造一个单独的现代笼子 洗涤系统完全配合最近的翻新，并提供自动化 笼式清洗的质量水平与AAALAC标准一致。

In 1984 Idaho State University was designated as the lead institution of the state in Health and Medically Related matters. This new institutional role and mission has dramatically changed the research emphasis of the University during the past few years and the University has committed significant funding in support of new faculty and program expansion in the College of Arts and Sciences, College of Health Related Professions and the College of Pharmacy. In addition, the State of Idaho (State Board of Education) established a Higher Education Research Council (HERC) that has begun providing research support to individual faculty members and research centers on a yearly basis. The results of the above efforts to stimulate research in the state of Idaho have evident at Idaho State University during the past few years. Research grant proposals have increased considerably during this period of time and faculty research projects and graduate training programs are expected to grow significantly in the future as new investigators become established. As a consequence of the above commitment to excellence and growth in research activities, the Idaho State University Animal Facility has also experienced considerable growth and an increasing role in the overall research picture of the University. The I.S.U. Animal Welfare Committee (the equivalent of the USDA IACUC) has been highly successful at improving animal care and use policy at I.S.U. and increasing the awareness of the administration as to the importance of the Animal Facility to the degree of significantly enhancing institutional support. Since the submission of the previous version of this proposal, the I.S.U. Animal Facility has achieved full accreditation by AAALAC, a sterile surgery suite has been constructed, and a second phase of institutionally-supported improvements are nearing completion. However, despite the many recent improvements, the I.S.U. Animal Facility lacks a cage washing system in its main resources area in the Life Sciences Complex. This proposal is for a single modern cage washing system to fully complement recent renovations and provide automated cage washing at a level of quality consistent with AAALAC standards.