# Core C: Vivarium core

> **NIH NIH P20** · DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $62,293

## Abstract

Summary 
The objective of this core is to support the operations of the new rodent housing facility at 
Delaware State University and ensure that it provides both efficient operations to support the 
research of COBRE investigators at DSU and high quality care for our rodent research subjects. 
The research of several faculty members supported by the Phase I and Phase II COBRE awards 
depends on the operation of the vivarium for husbandry of mouse models for their research. Our 
COBRE Vivarium core will provide support and staff to start up operations of our new rodent 
housing facility which was renovated with support from our Phase I COBRE grant, and which 
will fully open in early 2017. COBRE support for the Vivarium Core at DSU will fund the start- 
up phase of the facility hiring staff and establishing procedures so that the facility can provide 
outstanding animal care for COBRE-affiliated researchers to increase their research productivity. 
As the level of funding for faculty research grows eventually the facility can be sustained by 
charges to faculty research grants. 
 The Specific Aims for the Vivarium Core are: 1) to start up and establish operations for 
the Vivarium Core; and 2) to strengthen and develop the animal care program at DSU to reflect 
the increased role of rodent research on the campus. An upgraded laboratory animal care 
program with a director and dedicated staff will allow the Vivarium to operate as a clean facility 
to support the optimal husbandry of lines of transgenic mice generated by COBRE-funded 
investigators. A COBRE-supported Vivarium core will significantly advance the research 
program of COBRE investigators and others at DSU with current and pending PHS funding.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10254434
- **Project number:** 5P20GM103653-10
- **Recipient organization:** DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** MELISSA A HARRINGTON
- **Activity code:** P20 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $62,293
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2012-09-26 → 2023-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10254434

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10254434, Core C: Vivarium core (5P20GM103653-10). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10254434. Licensed CC0.

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