# National Xenopus Resource Center

> **NIH NIH P40** · MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY · 2021 · $201,219

## Abstract

Project Summary
This grant supports a project to expand the National Xenopus Resource (NXR) to allow it to sell more wild type
Xenopus laevis frogs. The need for this expansion is the recent closure of Nasco, one of the main commercial
suppliers of Xenopus laevis. The current expansion would entail purchase of new recirculating aquatic systems
and renovation of the room where the equipment will be located. The equipment is being purchased from Iwaki
Aquatic as this is the same systems already in use in the NXR. Alterations and renovations of the room will be
performed by staff at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) as well as outside contractors. This expansion
will allow the NXR to grow up to 1,000 additional wild type X. laevis for the research community. This should
help alleviate the loss of frogs from the closure of Nasco.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10405208
- **Project number:** 3P40OD010997-12S1
- **Recipient organization:** MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY
- **Principal Investigator:** Marko E Horb
- **Activity code:** P40 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $201,219
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2010-08-12 → 2025-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10405208

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10405208, National Xenopus Resource Center (3P40OD010997-12S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10405208. Licensed CC0.

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