Project Grant S15OD039800
- 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 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...
- 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...
- The Project Grant awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to Thomas Jefferson University's (TJU) Laboratory Animal Services (LAS) department will provide $347,945 to modernize the individual ventilated caging (IVC) system in two older animal research facilities on the TJU campus. The award will fund the acquisition of new IVC equipment to improve the capacity, welfare, and operational efficiency of the university's research...
- This $1,869,146 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) will enable the California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to acquire an automated cell culture system, the CellXpress.AI, to support high-throughput screening and advanced cellular model development for biomedical research. The new system will allow CNSI's Molecular Screening Shared Resource (MSSR) to scale...
- The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has been awarded a $336,935 Project Grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the 21st Century Cures Act - Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative program (CFDA 93.372). The grant will support the development of techniques for performing dual in vivo whole-cell and large-scale extracellular Neuropixels recordings in the awake marmoset. This will provide continuous,...
- 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...
- The University of Louisville (UofL) was awarded a $345,933 Project Grant under the NIH's Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to modernize the environmental monitoring system for the university's Clinical and Translational Research Vivarium (CTRV). The CTRV houses animals for several of UofL's NIH-funded Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) projects and supports the work of 64 investigators across 16 departments. The new Avidity Watchdog environmental monitoring and...
- This $14.48 million cooperative agreement from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke will fund research into the neural dynamics driving affiliation and attachment. Awarded to the University of California, Los Angeles under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders program (CFDA 93.853), the project aims to examine how the neurobiology underlying affiliative behaviors in mice is adapted to support more...
- 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...
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 machine learning to remotely monitor and record environmental factors and animal behavior. This will provide a more controlled and efficient vivarium environment, improve animal welfare, and collect critical data to quantify the impact of extrinsic factors on research outcomes. The award period is from August 1, 2025 to July 31, 2026.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $349.2k | 8/1/25 |