CONSTRUCTION OF ANIMAL FACILITY

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的建设项目将有可能在范德比尔特大学医学中心北（MCN）扩建动物设施的外壳空间。 目前，大学正在MCN的屋顶上建造一个三层楼的老鼠设施（在本申请中称为MCNII）;第六层（工作人员）和第八层（老鼠;生物安全三级隔离室;啮齿动物定量室;笼子清洗）将于2002年春季完工。 不幸的是，有限的大学资源要求七楼（11,000笼容纳能力）是外壳空间。 然而，这个空间是绝对必要的，以适应资助，待定和计划的同行评审的研究计划的现有教师招聘。 其中一些项目是多学科的，涉及创建和筛选小鼠模型。 该大学通过为研究人员提供小鼠胚胎冷冻保存和繁殖以及菌落监测的核心功能，积极管理菌落大小。 尽管做出了这些努力，但仍然迫切需要鼠标保持空间。 这个应用程序概述了整体战略动物空间规划在范德比尔特大学。 小鼠研究项目的增长需要目前投资和建设更多的小鼠设施，以及对科学研究的看法。 要求提供资金，以建造否则将是外壳空间，以增加百分之四十的鼠标住房容量。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed construction project will make possible the build out of shell space for an expanded animal facility in Medical Center North (MCN) at Vanderbilt University. Currently, the University is building a three-floor mouse facility on the rooftop of MCN (referred to as MCNII throughout this application); floors six (staff) and eight [mice; Biosafety Level 3 containment suite; rodent quantitative suites; cage washing] will be completed in spring 2002. Unfortunately, limited University resources have required that floor seven (11,000 cage holding capacity) be shell space. Yet this space is absolutely essential to accommodate funded, pending and planned peer-reviewed research programs of existing faculty under recruitment. Several of these programs are multidisciplinary and involve creating and screening mouse models. The University aggressively manages colony size by providing investigators with core functions for mouse embryo cryo-preservation and breeding and colony monitoring. Despite these efforts, there is desperate need of mouse holding space. This application outlines the overall strategic animal space planning at Vanderbilt University. The growth in mouse research projects required the current investment in and building of additional mouse facilities, and a perspective on the scientific research. Funds are requested to build-out what otherwise would be shell space to increase mouse housing capacity by 40 percent.