MSB Central Animal Facility Renovation

描述（由申请人提供）：纽约大学朗格尼医学中心医学院（NYUSoM）是纽约市领先的医疗保健、生物医学研究、教育和公共服务中心。拟通过申请的资金改善的设施是医学大楼。要求的改造包括建立额外的啮齿动物屏障住房、啮齿动物神经行为核心、大型动物住房和可接受的员工环境工作条件。这些核心设施的改善将能够为调查员提供支助，目前共计119 321 830美元。此外，拟议的改造将影响纽约大学Langone医学中心现有研究人员的动物研究能力和质量，并使纽约大学几乎所有基础科学部门的教师能够额外招聘。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): New York University Langone Medical Center School of Medicine (NYUSoM) is a leading center of excellence in health care, biomedical research, education, and public service in New York City. The proposed facility to be improved through the requested funds is the Medical Sciences Building (MSB). The requested renovations include the creation of additional rodent barrier housing, a rodent neurobehavioral core, large animal housing, and acceptable environmental working conditions for employees. These core facilities improvements will be able to support investigators with a current total of $119,321,830. In addition, the proposed renovations will impact the capacity and quality of animal research at NYU Langone Medical Center for existing investigators and enable additional recruitment of faculty in almost all of the basic science departments at NYU.