EXPANSION OF RESEARCH FACILITIES

描述(由申请人提供)：随着实验室的研究和资源在全国的重要性增加，TJL的研究项目急剧增长。然而，由于缺乏实验室和动物空间，TJL进一步发展并为国家科学事业做出更大贡献的能力受到限制。研究实验室100%被占用，研究动物设施(RAF)达到最大容量。然而，招聘工作仍在进行中，特别是寻找新的TJL主任。必须有实验室和动物空间，才能招募到具有所需地位的科学家。管理委员会最近批准了一项耗资6000万美元的研究设施扩建项目，即东部研究大楼(ERB)，其中将包括实验室和动物空间。然而，这一扩建的计划和资金都是初步的，不能满足眼前的需求。拟议的项目既可以缓解目前的空间限制，又可以推进TJL的长期扩建计划。需要资金来装备现有皇家空军的外壳空间，以创建两个动物室，供TJL的生殖和发育生物学小组使用，他们将受益于直接进入侧翼的成像设施和病理实验室。一个大型实验室和新的皇家空军人员进入锁将安装在新建造的壳体空间中，该空间的位置是将现有的研究实验室侧翼和皇家空军与计划中的ERB连接起来。该项目还将通过更有效地分离干净和肮脏的走廊以及更有效地划分动物维护和研究职能来升级皇家空军。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Research programs at The TJL grow dramatically as the national importance of the Laboratory's research and resources increases. However, TJL's ability to grow further and contribute even more to the national scientific endeavor is limited by lack of laboratory and animal space. Research laboratories are 100 percent occupied and the Research Animal Facility (RAF) is at capacity. Yet recruitment is ongoing, particularly the search for a new Director of TJL. Laboratory and animal space must be available to recruit a scientist of the required stature. The Board of Governing Trustees recently approved a $60 million research facility expansion, the East Research Building (ERB) that will encompass laboratory and animal space. However, plans and funds for this expansion are preliminary, and it cannot meet the immediate demand. The proposed project will both alleviate the current space constraints and advance TJL's long-term expansion plans. Funds are requested to outfit shell space in the existing RAF to create two animal rooms that will be used by TJL's reproductive and developmental biology group, who will benefit from direct access to the imaging facilities and Pathology Laboratory in the Wing. A large laboratory and new personnel entry locks to the RAF will be fitted out in newly constructed shell space that is positioned to connect the existing research laboratory wings and RAF with the planned ERB. The project will also upgrade the RAF, through more effective separation of clean and dirty corridors and more efficient zoning of animal maintenance and research functions.