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