THE SCINTILLON INSTITUTE
CORE FACILITIES - RECHARGE RATE SCHEDULE

(EFFECTIVE 03/01/2025 until amended)

(a) Non-Profit Collaborator Rate = Internal cost-per-unit, including overhead applied at 92.6% (2024 approved indirect cost rate).

(b) For-Profit Collaborative Rate = Internal cost-per-unit, including overhead applied at 92.6% (2024 approved indirect cost rate), plus a shared service management fee equal to 25% of the direct & indirect per-unit-cost of each shared service.

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Colony Management:

· water bottle exchange

· daily health check and health status report

· breeder set-up: continuous mating, one-time mating, 1:1 or harem mating

· timed mating: vaginal sperm plug check

· new litter documentation

· weaning of pups

· animal identification: ear notch, toe clip with IACUC approval

· tail biopsy for genotyping performed by lab

· web-based pedigree database maintenance (Excel file)

· daily and monthly cage census

· cage consolidation (as time allows or when requested by lab)

· euthanasia

· specimen collection for the Sentinel Health Surveillance Program

· routine colony health surveillance (IDEXX, CRL)

· animal set-out for transfer to PI's lab for terminal procedures such as tissue collection

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Technical Procedures:

· tumor palpation and measurement

· animal body weight

· glucose testing (lab provides test strips and glucose meter)

· BrdU or Tamoxifen injection

· hormone injection (lab provides hormones)

· SC, IP, IV, IM, ID injection

· oral gavage/dosing