# Core B: Animal Models and Pathology

> **NIH NIH P01** · MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA · 2020 · $204,547

## Abstract

SUMMARY 
The Animal Models and Pathology Core is established to provide essential animal and pathology resource 
components that comprehensively support research Projects utilizing animal models. The Specific Aims of this 
Core are: Specific Aim 1 - To maintain quality controlled breeding colonies for various mouse strains; Specific 
Aim 2 - To develop novel strains of transgenic mice and maintain breeding colonies of mice that will be 
specifically utilized by individual Projects in the Program; Specific Aim 3 - To generate mouse embryonic 
fibroblasts (MEFs) from various mice strains proposed in individual projects; Specific Aim 4 - To provide animal 
pathology services for in vivo cancer models; and Specific Aim 5 - To provide services for tumor tissue staining 
and characterization by IHC and TMA.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9980702
- **Project number:** 5P01CA203628-05
- **Recipient organization:** MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
- **Principal Investigator:** Shikhar Mehrotra
- **Activity code:** P01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $204,547
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9980702

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9980702, Core B: Animal Models and Pathology (5P01CA203628-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9980702. Licensed CC0.

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