Project Grant S15OD039813
- 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 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 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 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 $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 $16,000,000 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Construction Support program (CFDA 93.352) will fund the construction of a new vivarium facility at Ohio University. The vivarium will be part of the Heritage Translational Research Center, a $67 million biomedical research facility that will consolidate and modernize the university's research infrastructure. The new vivarium will replace an outdated facility, expanding total mouse cage capacity by 64%...
- The National Institutes of Health Office of the Director awarded Thomas Jefferson University a $494,430 Project Grant under the Research Infrastructure Programs federal grant program (CFDA 93.351) for the period of September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2023. The grant funds will support the acquisition of an automated liquid handling platform to increase the sequencing capacity and efficiency of the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center's fee-for-service Metaomics Shared Resource Core Facility. The new...
- 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 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a $3,999,180 Project Grant under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) to The Administrators Of Tulane Educational Fund, doing business as Tulane University. This grant will fund the expansion of indoor-outdoor housing facilities for Tulane's Specific Pathogen-Free (SPF) Macaque Breeding Colony to support HIV/AIDS-related research at the Tulane National Primate Research Center (TNPRC). The...
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 animal program, which supports over 125 active principal investigators with $170M in total research funding. By expanding the IVC system, the project aims to increase the room census capacity by 25% to enable more internal studies and collaborative projects within TJU's research cores, including its NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center. The project will also help maintain TJU's attractiveness as a research institution for prospective investigators as the university continues to recruit and expand its overall research portfolio.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $347.9k | 7/30/25 |