RR-03-011 Extramural Research Facilities Construction P*

描述(由申请人提供)： 威尔康奈尔医学中心(WCMC)正在为一个450万美元的项目寻求联邦政府的共同支持，该项目旨在执行为期三年、分阶段耗资3340万美元的动物设施总体计划的第一阶段，以改善和扩大动物设施，为WCMC快速增长的AAALAC认证的动物资源计划服务。总体规划的实施将使WCMC目前的鼠舍容量从7,400个增加到25,000个，为未来8至10年提供足够的住房容量。住房能力的扩大是通过额外分配5050平方英尺的总面积以及加强现有空间的利用来实现的。该计划将重新调整该计划，以便为特定物种的居住和利用提供空间，使其与利用这些物种的实验室非常接近。一期工程包括对S大楼三楼的7,830个GSF进行大规模改造，提供最先进的动物设施，其中包括一个大型动物外科套房、六个动物拘留室、三个动物程序室、尸检和一个笼子清洗中心。大型动物外科项目，以及世界动物中心大型动物收容所的一个主要组成部分，搬迁到S大楼的3ra层，将使大型动物模型开发和使用项目进入与花旗集团生物医学成像中心相邻的空间。该区域用于支持大型动物模型以及位于S大楼9楼和10楼的贝尔弗基因治疗核心设施。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Weill Cornell Medical Center (WCMC) is seeking shared federal support for a $ 4.5 million project to execute Phase I of a three-year multi-phase $ 33.4 million Animal Facility Master Plan to improve and expand the animal facilities serving WCMC's rapidly growing AAALAC-accredited animal resource program. Implementation of the Master Plan will increase WCMC's current mouse housing capacity from 7,400 to 25,000 cages providing sufficient housing capacity for the next eight to ten years. The expansion in housing capacity is achieved through allocation of an additional 5,050 gross square feet (GSF) as well as enhancing the utilization of existing space. The plan will realign the program such that space availability for housing and utilization of select species will be in close proximity to the laboratories which utilize them. Phase I consists of an extensive renovation of 7,830 GSF on the 3 rd floor of the S building providing a state-of-the-art animal facility containing a large animal surgical suite, six animal holding rooms, three animal procedure rooms, necropsy, and a cage wash center. The relocation of the large animal surgical program, as well as a major component of WCMC's large animal housing space, to the 3 ra floor of the S building will bring the large animal model development and use program into space contiguous with the Citigroup Biomedical Imaging Center. This area is used to support large animal models along with the Belfer Gene Therapy Core facility located on the 9 th and 10 th floors of the S building.