The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a $349,584 Project Grant under the NIH Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus. The project will enable the conversion of the existing mouse caging system to an advanced system that uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to continuously monitor animal welfare and husbandry operations. The grant will fund the purchase and outfitting of 14 individually...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) provides $349,729 to the Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc. (RFMH) at the Nathan S. Kline Institute (NKI) to acquire specialized digital ventilated caging (DVC) systems for laboratory mouse housing. The DVC systems will enable 24-hour remote monitoring of the cage microenvironment, promoting animal health, reducing disturbance, and improving the accuracy of...
This $340,302 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) will support The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in upgrading and modernizing its animal research facilities. Specifically, the funding will enable MUSC to:
Implement new animal housing and caging systems equipped with remote microenvironment monitoring capabilities. This will increase housing capacity by 50-100% in certain areas, supporting growing...
This federal Project Grant award of $349,501 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) will fund the purchase and installation of group housing pens for a breeding colony of pigtail macaques (Macaca nemestrina) at the Washington National Primate Research Center (WANPRC) in Seattle, WA.
The grant aims to increase the efficiency and animal welfare of the WANPRC's breeding program for this nonhuman primate species, which is a critical animal...
This Project Grant award from the Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) provides $327,477 to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc. to acquire four Techniplast Digital Ventilated Cage (DVC) Isocage Negative Systems. These state-of-the-art mouse housing systems will enhance operational efficiency and animal welfare in St. Jude's Shared Animal Biosafety Level 3 (ABSL3) Plus Select Agent Program, which...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director awarded Ohio University a $16,000,000 Project Grant under the Construction Support (CFDA 93.352) federal grant program. The grant will fund the construction of a new vivarium facility within the Heritage Translational Research Center at Ohio University to support the university's biomedical research institutes, the Diabetes Institute and the Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute. The new vivarium will expand Ohio...
This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) provides $350,000 to the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) to enhance the environmental monitoring capabilities of the university's animal research facilities.
Specifically, the grant will fund the purchase and installation of a Rees Scientific environmental monitoring system across UIC's 8 centralized animal facilities, which collectively...
The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a $350,000 Project Grant under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine to modernize the specific pathogen-free (SPF) rodent housing facilities in the Chanin Building. The project will establish a specialized sub-facility to support basic and preclinical research involving highly immunodeficient mice used by researchers across several NIH-funded centers at the institution, including the...
This $8,000,000 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) will fund the expansion of the Specific Pathogen Free (SPF) breeding colony housing at the Emory National Primate Research Center (ENPRC) in Georgia. The funding will be used to demolish an existing small animal housing building and replace it with a larger run housing facility to support the growing demand for non-human primates,...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a $342,798 Project Grant under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to the Arkansas Children's Research Institute (ACRI) to acquire modern rodent housing cabinets. The goal is to advance ACRI's research operations by providing a cost and energy-efficient means to breed, house, and study rodents at thermoneutral temperatures. This will help promote the rigor and translatability of preclinical data from ACRI's rodent models of...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a $349,788 Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) Project Grant to The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) to establish a state-of-the-art vivarium dedicated to the UTRGV laboratory opossum (Monodelphis domestica) research colony. The grant will fund the purchase and installation of ten racks of an individually ventilated cage (IVC) system to house the colony, which will allow the steady state to increase to 1,726 animals and provide optimal conditions for animal welfare and research. This resource is the only large research colony of any marsupial species and contains the only genetic stocks and inbred strains developed for this species, serving as a vital national resource for biomedical investigators. The new vivarium and caging system will enable UTRGV to meet the growing institutional and national demand for this unique laboratory animal model.