Specific Pathogen Free Animal Facility
The Specific Pathogen Free (SPF) Animal Facility provides husbandry care and housing service for SPF animals, as well as laboratory space for handling, transferring, performing anesthesia, and monitoring experimental animals’ physiological signals.
To access this Facility, please submit a research proposal to the AS Institutional Animal Care and Utilization Committee (IACUC) for approval, and then provide documents for animal origins and health conditions prior to utilizing our services.
Location:10th Floor, Institute of Biomedical Sciences Building
Manager:Ms. Hsiao-Lin Wu
Contact Persons:
Ms. Hsiao-Lin Wu, Secretary of SPF Animal Facility
Phone Number: 2789-9911 ext. 101
Website:https://ascore.sinica.edu.tw/?language=en
Availability: Services available to all Academia Sinica Project PIs.
Services:Husbandry care and housing service for specific pathogen free animals and subsequent research operations.
Equipment:Independent Ventilation Caging (IVC) System, Biosafety Cabinet, Gas Anesthesia Machine, Small Animal Imaging System (IVIS, In-vivo Xtreme II)