Director, DLAR

 Cage card changes  Berg G20  Staff updates  Animal Ordering (not Topaz protocol software)  Associate Director, Operations  Facility Projects Update  Associate Director, Operations  Animal Health Update  Associate Director; Chief of Vet Services

 The number of animals used by NYUSoM must be reported to various regulating bodies and must be within IACUC protocol limits  Currently, this number is determined by the number of animals ordered  The number of animals ordered is deducted in Granite from the amount allowed in IACUC protocol.

 This system does not “count” animals that are bred and weaned in-house.  Theoretically, someone could purchase 1 breeding pair, produce a hundred offspring used in experiments, and their animal use for the year would be 2.  Currently, PIs order “manual” cage cards for weaned animals  Don’t reference a number of animals  No animals are recorded in Granite or deducted from the IACUC protocol

 Have PIs place a web animal order every time they need to wean animals  Unacceptable burden on both PIs and DLAR staff

 Create “weaning” manual cards  Run a report of all new weaning cards for the month (by PI and protocol#)  Deduct the number of animals from the protocol based on an average number of animals per cage  Average number = 3.5 mice per cage at NYUSoM  Cards will also be created for “separation” that will not be deducted from protocol  System in place at Emory Univ. for years

 Recognize that laboratory personnel training will be required to make sure people order the correct type of card (i.e. weaning vs separation).  Soon, we will implement the two new types of manual cards  Run reports and verify results without deducting from IACUC protocols until we’re certain system is working correctly

 Awarded $9.3M from NIH to renovate Berg  An additional 10% match from NY State  6 Specific Aims:  Create approx 4000 cage mouse barrier on 5 th floor State of the art individually ventilated caging  Create rodent neurobehavioral core on 8 th floor  Create additional large animal housing on 6 th floor  Create women’s locker room for staff on 6 th floor  Improve quality of animal housing on 4 th floor  Improve HVAC in cagewash area

 Good News  Increase the amount of available animal housing space, including rodent barrier space  Increase the capacity for animal research at NYUMC  Bad News  There will be disruptions  In order to renovate each floor, animals must be moved  All moves will be communicated well in advance

 New Smilow Facility Supervisor joined DLAR in April.  Smilow supervisor  New Operations Manager will join DLAR in June 1 st.  Operations manager