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WVU To Build New Animal Research Lab

05-03-2010, Shawn Falkenstein, Morgantown, Metro News, West-Virginia, USA


West Virginia University will build a new $14.5 Million animal research laboratory on its Health Sciences Campus thanks to federal stimulus money. The grant is the largest so far under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Health Science Vice President Dr. Fred Butcher says the new facility will house the animal research laboratories that help study new medicines on rodents.

“The facility will house the animals,” said Butcher. “It puts them in conditions where the environment is controlled. It will be backed up with an infrastructure to allow us to make sure there are no wide fluctuations in environmental conditions because you don’t want to influence experiments.”

The laboratory will be used to study human diseases and treatments.

“Setting up experiments to try and develop new insights that would be even before the drug development phase. It would be looking at biomedical or cellular mechanisms that are changed, for example in heart disease, and get insights into what might be a target for drug development.”
The building is the second phase of a project to replace the HSC’s original animal quarters, built in 1957, which are inadequate to meet modern standards for the care and use of research animals. The first phase is currently under construction.

The new facility is expected to result in 253 additional permanent jobs on the WVU campus, including 13 directly in the animal quarters and 240 in biomedical research laboratories around the Health Sciences Center. During construction, the project will add 113 jobs to the local community.

(Bron: http://www.wvmetronews.com/)