CIBR Awarded BAGLAI Prize for the Second Year in a Row
For the second year in a row, the Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Beijing (CIBR) was awarded the 2020 Beijing Advanced Group in Laboratory Animal Industry (BAGLAI) prize for excellence in care and use of research animals by the Beijing Laboratory Animal Society on December 8, 2020. The CIBR Laboratory Animal Resource Center (referred to as "the Center") is a state-of-the-art core facility providing a wide range of technical services surrounding the use and husbandry of research animals, such as laboratory animal breeding and care, veterinary services, resource conservation and sharing, pathogen free rederivation, embryo and sperm freezing, animal ordering and distribution, training in use of research animals, and creation of animal disease models, among other services tailored to the needs of individual researchers.
The Center is currently in its second phase of development, with the completion of Phase I during which the license of laboratory animal use was obtained on July 12, 2019 and services were initiated. The planning and design of the Phase II laboratory animal facilities have also been completed, including rodent laboratory animal facilities (about 30,000 cages) and an ABSL2 and non-human primate research facility. Covering more than 1,500 square meters, the Center has several functional areas such as a rat and mouse holding room, embryo operation room, behavioral room, surgery and imaging room, etc. The Center is also equipped with specialized animal feeding equipment including individually ventilated cages (IVC), walk-in and cabinet type cage washers, filling machines, pulse vacuum sterilizer, cage changing stations, and a high throughput xenon light pass-through sterilization chamber, etc., in addition to other standard laboratory apparatuses like biosafety cabinets, stereotactic surgical devices, ventilators and anesthesia machines for small animals, and in vivo imagers.
The Center has established service groups that include feeding and care teams, veterinarians, embryo operation technicians, animal model specialists, and facility maintenance staff. All staff members at the Center are proudly committed to ensuring the quality and welfare of research animals, and providing scientists with advanced technical services related to laboratory animals.
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