AN IMPROVED ANIMAL RESOURCE FACILITIES

改进的动物资源设施

• 批准号: 6763452
• 负责人: Ann S Henderson
• 金额: $ 62.48万
• 依托单位: HUNTER COLLEGE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-07-15 至 2009-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6763452
• 关键词: animal colony; biomedical facility; building /facility design /renovation; genetically modified animals; laboratory mouse; laboratory rat; nonbiomedical equipment

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Hunter College is a unique institution because it is a long existing urban university with a history of educating populations whose access to higher education has been historically limited. For decades, over 60% of Hunter College undergraduates have been underserved students and currently about 75% of our students are women. Throughout the years we have demonstrated a strong commitment to educate our unique population of students, providing a full range of academic programs, from undergraduate classes to doctoral dissertation research through the CUNY's Graduate Center. We have a long-standing RCMI program that includes topnotch scientists who use animals in their programs of research. Each of these scientists is productive and most hold NIH funding. This research effort is supported by an active IACUC committee and very well run Animal Facility. The Facility maintains a variety of vertebrate animal species and has undergone a number of improvements over the past decade with funds from both NIH, the State of New York, and Hunter College. Nonetheless, the age of the current ventilation system and the enormous growth of our research efforts have resulted in increasing down time for repairs and an increasingly desperate need for more space. Thus the overall purpose of this application is to provide funds to replace and repair the existing ventilation system and to renovate new space recently made available to the Facility by the College. To accomplish this goal, we propose to: I. Replace the existing HVAC units and renovate the current HVAC duct distribution such that airflow is improved and made more reliable; 2. Improve the limited electrical service; 3. Repair and provide access to important mechanical systems for which access is now limited; and 4. Renovate the new and contiguous space for the Facility. This latter space, currently unusable, will be subdivided for animal housing, multi-user testing and general surgical use. To meet increased demands for animal housing, additional self-contained and ventilated cage units are requested. When these alterations and renovations are completed, the Animal Facility will be able to accommodate the needs of the current and future research faculty at Hunter College, and allow this faculty to continue to compete successfully for federal funds. Further, it will allow us to maintain our outstanding record in mentoring underserved populations in science.

描述（由申请人提供）： 亨特学院（Hunter College）是一家独特的机构，因为它是一所悠久的城市大学，拥有教育人口的历史，其历史上受到教育的机会一直有限。几十年来，超过60％的亨特学院大学生是服务不足的学生，目前我们约有75％的学生是女性。多年来，我们已经表现出致力于教育我们独特的学生人群的坚定承诺，提供了各种各样的学术课程，从本科课程到通过CUNY的研究生中心进行博士学位论文研究。我们有一个长期存在的RCMI计划，其中包括在研究计划中使用动物的一面科学家。这些科学家中的每一个都是富有成效的，并且最多拥有NIH资金。这项研究工作得到了一个活跃的IACUC委员会和运行良好的动物设施的支持。该设施维持各种脊椎动物动物物种，并在过去十年中通过NIH，纽约州和亨特学院的资金进行了许多改进。尽管如此，当前通风系统的年龄和我们的研究工作的巨大增长导致维修时间增加，并且越来越迫切需要对更多空间的需求。因此，本应用程序的总体目的是提供资金来替换和修复现有的通风系统，并翻新学院最近提供给该设施的新空间。为了实现这一目标，我们建议：I。更换现有的HVAC单元并翻新当前的HVAC管道分布，以改善气流并使其更可靠； 2。改善有限的电气服务； 3.维修并提供对访问权限的重要机械系统的访问；和4。为该设施翻新新的和连续的空间。目前无法使用的后一个空间将被细分用于动物外壳，多用户测试和一般手术使用。为了满足对动物住房的需求增加，请求额外的独立和通风的笼子单元。当这些改动和翻新完成后，动物设施将能够满足亨特学院当前和未来的研究教师的需求，并允许该教师继续成功争夺联邦资金。此外，这将使我们能够保持我们在科学领域服务不足的人群中的出色记录。