Non-Human Primate Core

疫苗研究中心非人灵长类免疫原性核心支持VRC的基础研究实验室，这些实验室正在对非人类灵长类动物进行疫苗接种实验。核心已经制定了严格的细胞分离、细胞冷冻保存、粘膜标本分离、免疫功能检测以及确定组织中淋巴细胞代表性的检测方法。NIC将对这些分析进行鉴定和验证，以确保一致性、灵敏度和重复性，从而为基础研究实验室提供最严格的支持。该中心在NHP实验的所有方面都有专业知识，并在多个层面上为研究人员提供支持：设计和实施实验、编写和向机构动物护理和使用委员会提交动物协议、安排实验计划、与动物医学实验室和动物合同设施对接、标本处理、数据分析。核心还维持着一个标本冷藏库，并参与国际培训和合作，以确保核心分析翻译到其他地点。

The Vaccine Research Center Nonhuman primate Immunogenicity Core supports the basic research laboratories of the VRC that are performing vaccination experiments with nonhuman primates. The Core has developed rigorous protocols for the isolation of cells, cryopreservation of cells, isolation of mucosal specimens, assays to detect immune function, and assays to determine lymphocyte representation in tissues. The NIC will qualify and validate these assays in order to provide the most rigorous support for basic research laboratories by ensuring consistency, sensitivity, and reproducibility. The Core has expertise in all aspects of NHP experiments, and provides support to investigators at multiple levels: design and implementation of experiments, writing and presenting the animal protocols to the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, scheduling of experiments, interfacing with the Laboratory of Animal Medicine and animal contract facilities, processing of specimens, data analysis. The Core also maintains a cryorepository of specimens, and participates in international training and collaborations to ensure translation of Core assays to other sites.