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 $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...
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 $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...
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...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a $1,043,278 Project Grant under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to the University of Utah. The grant funding will be used to purchase a new Promethion-Core Metabolic Phenotyping System - an advanced indirect calorimetry system that can simultaneously measure multiple parameters including oxygen consumption, carbon dioxide production, energy expenditure, substrate utilization, food and water intake, and spontaneous activity. This...
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 U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a $136,650 Shared Instrumentation Grant (CFDA 93.351) to Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) to acquire a new generation EchoMRI whole body composition analyzer. This instrument will provide reliable and advanced research capabilities critical for investigating metabolic disorders, monitoring chronic disease progression, and understanding disease mechanisms through comprehensive body composition analysis in small live animals. The...
This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) provides $161,950 to Baylor College of Medicine to acquire TSE CLIMATE CHAMBERS for precisely controlling the temperature and humidity of rodent housing environments. The award will enable the institution to maintain animals at specific temperatures outside the standard range, facilitating research focused on cold activation of adipose tissue, metabolic demand, and disease...
This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) provides $349,501 to the University of Washington to purchase and install pen housing for a breeding colony of pigtail macaques (Macaca nemestrina). The goal is to increase the efficiency and improve the welfare of the breeding colony, which is used to provide animal models for biomedical research. The new pen housing will allow for breeding in harem groups rather than...