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UBC Animal Care Services offers a variety of specialized business and research support services to meet the ever-evolving needs of the UBC research community.
The ACS Business Office is available to assist investigators and support staff with questions and concerns pertaining to the many business aspects associated with managing an animal care and use project, including:
ACS also offers a variety of fee-for-service research support services to investigators with limited personnel, equipment, and/or space resources.
For information about animal acquisition, ordering, and barcoding, visit the Animal Ordering page.
Service offerings include:
- Technical services
- Blood collection
- Procedure support
- Animal laboratory services
- Necropsy
- Hematology
- Paraffin processing, embedding, and scheduling
- H&E and other reoutine special histochemical stains
- Digital slide scanning
- Gnotobiotic mouse unit
- Centralized germ-free and gnotobiotic mouse services
- Large animal surgical suites
- Featuring adjoining surgical preparation areas and post operative recovery areas available for rent
- Rodent breeding colony
- Services include mating, separating, weaning, genotyping, transfers, euthanasia, and day-to-day management for your colony
Questions?
If you have additional questions about any of these services, or are looking for a specific service not listed here, please contact ACS at anca.orders@ubc.ca and your question will be routed to the appropriate contact.