General Information

The objective of the Animal Recources and LAboratory Services core is to offer a broad array of animal modeling expertise, technical support, and instrumentation to the scientific community that is involved in responding to national research initiatives in biodefense and infectious disease. We coordinate access of RCE investigators to a broad array of existing core resources and expertise in animal modeling at UC Davis, including the Center for Comparative Medicine, the UC Davis Mouse Biology Program, the California National Primate Research Center (including the Respiratory Biology Laboratory), the Center for Vector Borne Diseases, and others. The Core is centrally administered through the UC Davis Center for Comparative Medicine, and provides access for RCE investigators to expertise in comparative and experimental pathology through an innovative telepathology system, which links all RCE sites and facilitates inter-institutional communication. Our mission is to stimulate and facilitate collaborative research interactions among RCE investigators and scientists needing expertise in animal modeling, in order to leverage RCE support into independent research programs that foster the NIH research mission in biodefense and emerging infectious disease research.