Project Grant S15OD039772
- The University of Kentucky Research Foundation received a $350,000 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to modernize sterilization equipment in the UK Todd Vivarium. The grant will fund the acquisition of a modern, eco-friendly dry heat sterilizer to enhance operations, increase capacity, and improve biosecurity for sensitive rodent models used in the university's expanding biomedical research enterprise. This...
- This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) provides $234,904 to the University of Missouri at Kansas City (UMKC) to acquire modern equipment for their Laboratory Animal Research Core Facility. The award will fund the purchase of a high-performance animal cage and rack washer system, including bottle washing carts and universal cage racks, to improve facility operations and efficiency. Additionally, the grant will support...
- 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,...
- The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Rodent Behavioral Testing Core, in collaboration with the Division of Laboratory Animal Medicine, received a $349,189 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to enhance the reliability and reproducibility of preclinical rodent research. The funding will be used to upgrade the current rodent housing system to Tecniplast's Digital Ventilated Cage System, which leverages...
- This Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Research Facilities Act Program (CFDA 10.246) will provide $364,090 to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) to replace and modernize the autoclave system at its Contained Research Facility (CRF). The CRF is a Biosafety Level 3-Plant (BSL3-P) quarantine facility that enables mission-critical research on emerging and invasive plant pests and...
- The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) awarded a $1,291,319 Project Grant to The University of Iowa to support innovations in open sharing of monoclonal antibodies for research. The 4-year grant, starting on April 15, 2025, aims to: 1) develop new open-source non-rodent hybridoma methodology, 2) perform antibody validation for large, less well-characterized monoclonal antibody collections to improve model organism research, and 3) further...
- The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a $749,854 Project Grant under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to Albany Medical College to acquire an Olympus FVMPE-RS multiphoton microscope for intravital microscopy research. This specialized microscope will enable NIH-supported investigators at Albany Medical College and other nearby research institutions to conduct detailed mechanistic studies using mouse models of disease, covering a range of research areas including...
- The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (ORIP) awarded a $230,250 Project Grant under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) to develop and characterize new transgenic mouse models expressing red fluorescent protein (RFP)-based genetically encoded indicators. The goal is to make these RFP-based mouse models available to the scientific community to overcome limitations of commonly used green...
- The University of Mississippi was awarded a $132,062 Project Grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to acquire a state-of-the-art zebrafish housing and breeding system for the university's aquatics facility. The goal is to support the expanding use of zebrafish, a critical model organism, in biomedical research at the university. The award will fund the implementation of new zebrafish culture systems, including single-sided and...
- This $3,339,048 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) will support research infrastructure and resource development at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. The funding will be used to enhance biomedical research capabilities through the acquisition of advanced scientific equipment, development of innovative research models and shared resources, and improvement of research facilities. Key focus areas...
This $350,000 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) will allow the University of Rochester to purchase a Gruenberg dry heat sterilizer to double sterile mouse cage throughput and reduce labor and utility expenses for its AAALAC-accredited animal research facilities. The university operates two vivaria totaling over 77,000 square feet that house approximately 18,000 autoclaved, HEPA-filtered cages of specific pathogen-free mice to support research projects led by 98 principal investigators across 38 departments. This equipment grant will enhance the efficiency and capacity of the university's biomedical research infrastructure to meet growing program demands.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $350.0k | 8/1/25 |