This Project Grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Biomedical Research and Research Training Program (CFDA 93.859) provides $349,999 to the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center (UNM HSC) to enhance and expand their animal research facility's rodent housing capabilities. The funding will be used to purchase 10 ventilated rodent racks with cages/accessories, install associated mechanical and electrical infrastructure, and acquire 2 biosafety...
This $327,477 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351), will fund the acquisition of four Techniplast Digital Ventilated Cage (DVC) Isocage Negative Systems at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. The goal of this project is to replace the aging mouse biocontainment housing system in the hospital's Animal Biosafety Level 3 (ABSL3) facility, which supports critical infectious disease...
This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) provides $349,584 to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus to purchase and outfit 14 individually ventilated racks with digital ventilated cage retrofit kits and a rack environmental monitoring system. This advanced caging system will leverage machine learning and artificial intelligence to monitor the animal research environment 24/7,...
This $128,500 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to the Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. The funding will support the purchase of a new efficient sterilizer with a water conservation vacuum system to increase the Institute's capacity for reliably sterilizing animal cages and research materials. This will enable the Institute to better support...
This federal Project Grant award of $342,798.00 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) will fund the acquisition of modern rodent housing cabinets for the Arkansas Children's Research Institute (ACRI). The goal is to enable ACRI to breed, house, and study rodent models of metabolic disease at thermoneutral temperatures, which is critical for promoting rigor and translatability in preclinical research. The award will support the purchase of...
The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) received a $350,000 Project Grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to enhance the environmental monitoring capabilities of its animal research facilities. The grant will fund the purchase and installation of a Rees Scientific environmental monitoring system to provide real-time 24/7 temperature, humidity, and light monitoring across 8 centrally managed animal facilities totaling 135,000 square...
This federal 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 and implement specialized digital ventilated caging (DVC) systems for improved monitoring and management of animal models in brain and behavioral research. The DVC systems will enable 24/7 remote monitoring of the cage microenvironment to promote animal health, reduce...
The University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute, Inc. (KUMCRI) was awarded a $8,000,000 Project Grant on September 8, 2023 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Construction Support program (CFDA 93.352) to renovate and construct a new multi-modality pre-clinical imaging facility as part of a broader campus-wide vivarium and cancer center expansion project. The facility will serve the research needs of the entire University of Kansas Medical Center campus, providing advanced...
This Cooperative Agreement award, with a total funding amount of $846,054, was provided by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (ORIP) under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351). The award will support the establishment of the MU Rodent Testing Center for Somatic Cell Genome Editing at the University of Missouri System. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: 1) breeding and maintaining groups of...
This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) provides $349,990 to West Virginia University Research Corporation to purchase a Comprehensive Laboratory Animal Monitoring System (CLAMS). This advanced animal metabolic monitoring equipment will support and enhance research capabilities at West Virginia University by enabling metabolic studies in both mice and rats. The award will address the high demand for CLAMS...