RES FACIL IMPROVEMENT: DIABETES

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的项目是广泛重建华盛顿大学华盛顿健康科学中心的I翼七楼，以创建专门的研究实验室、动物房、手术室和办公空间，这些都是利用NHP进行技术创新神经科学研究所必需的。WaRPRC的长期目标是追求和支持使用NHPs的重要生物医学研究，并开发创新和专门的资源，以促进使用NHPs作为研究模型。WaRPRC的一个关键组成部分是神经科学部门的杰出专业知识，由六名核心工作人员和五名中心研究附属机构组成，由内部实验室动物服务，生物工程和生物结构技术设施提供支持。为了跟上认知神经科学研究的爆炸性增长，计划建立一个新的CCN。CCN的使命将是利用新技术对神经活动进行定量分析，研究NHP中高级功能的神经机制。重建后的设施将为两名灵长类中心核心工作人员科学家和一个神经计算实验室创建实验室，并支持正电子发射断层扫描（PET）成像设施。CCN还将包括WaRPRC中从事认知工作的其他神经科学家，并将促进与众多部门的校园范围内的合作。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed project is to extensively reconstruct the seventh floor of the I-Wing in the University of Washington Health Sciences Center, WaRPRC to create, the specialized research laboratories, animal housing, procedure rooms, and office space necessary to conduct technically innovative neuroscience research utilizing NHPs. The long-term goal of the WaRPRC is to pursue and support important biomedical research using NHPs, and to develop innovative and specialized resources to facilitate the use of NHPs as research models. A key component of the WaRPRC is the outstanding expertise of the Neuroscience Division, comprised of six Core Staff and five Center-based Research Affiliates, supported by in-house laboratory animal services, bioengineering and a biostructure technology facility. To keep pace with the explosive growth of research in cognitive neuroscience it is planned to establish a new CCN. The mission of the CCN will be to investigate neural mechanisms of higher functions in NHPs using new technologies for quantitative analysis of neural activity. The reconstructed facility will create laboratories for two Primate Center Core Staff scientists and a Neural Computation laboratory and support a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging facility. The CCN will also encompass other neuroscientists in the WaRPRC pursuing cognitive work and will facilitate campus-wide collaborations with numerous departments.