This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) provides $349,729 to the Research Foundation For Mental Hygiene, Inc. (RFMH) to acquire specialized digital ventilated caging (DVC) systems for their animal research facility at the Nathan S Kline Institute. The DVC systems will enable 24-hour remote monitoring of the cage microenvironment to promote animal health, minimize disturbance, and support more accurate and...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a $349,584 Project Grant under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus. The grant funding will enable the university to purchase and outfit 14 individually ventilated racks in their animal research facility with digital ventilated cage retrofit kits and rack environmental monitoring systems. This advanced caging system will utilize machine learning and artificial...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a $340,302 Project Grant under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). The goal of this 1-year project, with a performance period from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025, is to modernize the microenvironment monitoring capabilities and increase the housing capacity of MUSC's animal research facility. This will be achieved by upgrading the obsolete animal caging system and integrating...
This $349,788 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) will support the establishment of a state-of-the-art vivarium for the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley's (UTRGV) laboratory opossum (Monodelphis domestica) research colony. The funding will be used to purchase and install 10 racks of an individually ventilated cage (IVC) system, which will enable the research colony to expand to 1,726 animals and provide...
This $350,000 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) will support the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) in enhancing its animal research facilities. Specifically, the funding will be used to purchase and install a comprehensive environmental monitoring system across 8 centrally managed animal housing facilities at UIC, totaling approximately 135,000 sq. ft. The real-time 24/7 system will monitor critical factors like...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (CFDA 93.351 - Research Infrastructure Programs) provides $234,904 to the University of Missouri at Kansas City (UMKC) to purchase modern equipment for the university's Laboratory Animal Research Core Facility. The grant will fund the acquisition of an advanced animal cage and rack washer system with bottle washing carts and universal basket racks, as well as a cloud-based environmental monitoring system. These upgrades will...
This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) will provide $128,500 to the Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center to modernize its sterilization equipment. Specifically, the funding will support the purchase of a new, efficient autoclave with a water conservation vacuum system. This will enable the institute to reliably sterilize the growing number of cages required for its...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a $185,500 Project Grant under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to Idaho State University (ISU) to enhance research capabilities and animal welfare in a shared animal facility. The goal is to detect, monitor, and track environmental factors like temperature, humidity, light, noise, and vibration that can impact pre-clinical research study reproducibility and outcomes. The project will purchase state-of-the-art "Sensory...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a $350,000 Project Grant under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to Albert Einstein College of Medicine to modernize the specific pathogen-free (SPF) rodent housing facilities at their Institute for Animal Studies. The grant will establish a specialized sub-facility within the existing SPF housing to support basic and preclinical research involving highly immunodeficient mice. This will enhance the biosafety and microenvironment...
The federal Project Grant award R24OD037683, totaling $342,798.00, was provided by the Office of the Director at the National Institutes of Health under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351). The purpose of the grant is to acquire modern rodent housing cabinets that will advance research-related operations within the animal core at the Arkansas Children's Research Institute (ACRI). The funding will enable ACRI to breed, house, and study rodents at thermoneutral temperatures, which...