# Animal Shared Resource

> **NIH NIH P30** · COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY · 2020 · $530,250

## Abstract

Animal Shared Resource - Project Summary/Abstract
The Animal Shared Resource offers integral support to CSHL Cancer Center members by providing high
quality animal housing, husbandry services, and technical and managerial support to cover all aspects of
animal care and use such as tissue biopsies, colony management and protocol implementation. In addition,
highly trained personnel teach a variety of specialty skills to researchers, including surgical manipulations and
post surgery monitoring, blood and tissue procurement, cesarean re-derivation, tissue perfusion, and
therapeutic and virus administration. The veterinary skills of the Animal Shared Resource enable researchers
to generate new and innovative mouse cancer models including viral transduction models, multi-allele
reversible cancer models, and organoid orthotopic engraftment models of human and mouse cancer.
Furthermore, the Animal Shared Resource develops and provides training for implementing new animal
protocols. The support provided by the Animal Shared Resource is absolutely fundamental for many research
advances in the CSHL Cancer Center. It has enabled researchers to develop innovative animal models for
cancer, which continue to be instrumental in uncovering the genetic and molecular basis of the disease. As the
CSHL Cancer Center shifts to expand its preclinical and translational research, animal models will become
even more important. The Animal Shared Resource enables researchers to move beyond cell culture and to
explore cancer biology and cancer medicine in an appropriate in vivo context. In summary, the Animal Shared
Resource provides the Cancer Center with a complete set of essential services and sophisticated technical
support to facilitate cancer research and discovery. Over the past five years, a total of 27 Cancer Center
members (73% of members) utilized the Animal Shared Resource, representing the majority of the facility's
use. This Shared Resource contributed to 70 publications by Cancer Center members over this time period.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9975711
- **Project number:** 5P30CA045508-33
- **Recipient organization:** COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY
- **Principal Investigator:** Alea A. Mills
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $530,250
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9975711

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9975711, Animal Shared Resource (5P30CA045508-33). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-27 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9975711. Licensed CC0.

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