Extramural Research Facilities Construction Xavier Anim*

描述（由申请人提供）： 路易斯安那州泽维尔大学提出，通过翻新8,800平方英尺最近完成的空间在诺曼C。弗朗西斯学术科学大楼，以创建一个动物资源中心。这个新的动物资源中心将包括专门的动物研究程序室和现代化的动物护理设施。这个新的中心将支持大学的承诺，生物医学研究和泽维尔战略计划，扩大大学的生物医学研究计划。该计划的一个关键目标是提高科学系研究人员的能力，以及学生在毕业和走向职业生涯时的能力，使他们成为健康相关科学知识发展前沿的领导者。实现这一目标的一个主要目标是提高他们竞争和获得NIH和其他联邦研究支持的能力。该计划包括增加至少四名新教师谁将在药学院聘请，从最近由NIH授予的捐赠计划资助，和至少五个新的教师将在艺术和科学学院聘请谁将取代个人谁将退休。扩大计划的主要重点是旨在消除健康差距的研究以及与糖尿病及其预防有关的研究。我们迫切需要改善我们的研究基础设施，以支持这一目标。我们的主要研究基础设施需求是取代现有的动物护理和研究设施。占地面积只有1，932平方英尺，目前的设施严重过时，不足以支持生物医学和行为研究的扩展

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Xavier University of Louisiana proposes to enhance and expand its biomedical research capability by renovating 8,800 square feet of recently-completed space in the Norman C. Francis Academic Science Building in order to create an Animal Resource Center. This new Animal Resource Center will include specialized animal-research procedure rooms and modern animal care facilities. This new Center will support the University's commitments to biomedical research and the Xavier Strategic Plan for expansion of the University's biomedical research program. One key objective in the Plan is to enhance the ability of science faculty-investigators, and of students as they graduate and progress to their professional careers, to become leaders at the cutting edge of knowledge development in the health-related sciences. A major goal in accomplishing this objective is to enhance their ability to compete for and secure NIH and other federal research support. The Plan includes the addition of a minimum of four new faculty who will be hired in the College of Pharmacy, funded from an endowment program recently awarded by NIH, and a minimum of five new faculty to be hired in the College of Arts and Sciences who will replace individuals who will be retiring. The primary foci of the expanded program are research aimed at eliminating health disparities and research related to diabetes and its prevention. We desperately need to improve our research infrastructure in support of this objective. Our primary research infrastructure need is to replace the existing animal care and research facilities. Occupying only 1,932 gross square feet, the current facilities are severely outdated and are inadequate to support the expansion in biomedical and behavioral research