# Behavioral Neuroscience Research Core

> **NIH NIH P20** · KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $101,907

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY
The current Behavioral Neuroscience (BN) core facility, housed within the Department of Psychological Sciences
at Kansas State University (KSU), is the only dedicated BN core in Psychology in the State of Kansas. The BN
core facility will be modernized and augmented through conducting alterations and renovations, and adding
major equipment items to expand the capabilities of the facility. The BN core is a fully functional research core
that was purpose-built in the early 1980s, and currently services 20-30 users including the BN PhD program.
The core facility improvements will focus on the surgery, microscopy, wet laboratory, and cage wash facilities.
The upgrades will expand the range of technologies available in the facility, allowing for the inclusion of cutting-
edge techniques into current and future research programs. The core is directed by Dr. Stephen Kiefer, a
nationally-known researcher in Behavioral Neuroscience in the area of taste-reactivity and alcohol abuse. Dr.
Kirkpatrick (the COBRE PI/PD) will serve as associate director of the core to provide additional senior leadership.
Additional training and mentoring will be supplied by the COBRE mentoring team, external advisory committee
members, and members from the BN collaborative network at KSU. A veterinary technician will provide daily
facility cleaning and maintenance, and will meet the animal care and husbandry needs of facility users. The BN
core will directly support two of the primary projects (Cain and Pickens), the current community of users (including
the PI/PD), potential pilot grant holders, and the additions of new faculty, post-doctoral fellow(s) and graduate
students. The expansion of the core facilities will also support Cognitive and Neurobiological Approaches to
Plasticity (C-NAP) center programs by providing an excellent training environment for the post-doctoral training
program and contributing to the scientific exchange network (SEN) training. Most importantly the BN core
upgrades will improve the research infrastructure for animal model research at KSU. Overall, the BN core facility
will provide an important component to the attainment of the C-NAP overarching aims by contributing importantly
to the success and growth of animal models of plasticity, a central component of C-NAP.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9947939
- **Project number:** 5P20GM113109-04
- **Recipient organization:** KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** STEPHEN W KIEFER
- **Activity code:** P20 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $101,907
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9947939

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9947939, Behavioral Neuroscience Research Core (5P20GM113109-04). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-08-12 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9947939. Licensed CC0.

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