Research Animal Support Facility - Houston (RASF-H)
Vanessa Jensen, D.V.M., DACLAM
Director
- Research Resources
- Core Facilities and Services
- Research Animal Support Facility - Houston
Overview
The Research Animal Support Facility - Houston (RASF-Houston) provides animal husbandry services, veterinary care and consultation, surgical and technical support, clinical and anatomic pathology support, health and genetic quality assurance, consultation and an assortment of technical services to support departmental and institutional research.
Regulatory compliance and training and education in animal care and use are additional functions of the facility, as are provision of animal health quality assurance testing and breeding colony management.
Getting Started
To get started, email DVMS-Info@mdanderson.org or call 713-792-2780. The DVMS business office will ensure your request gets to the appropriate individuals.
All DVMS Information, FAQs, and forms may be found on the Veterinary Medicine and Surgery intranet homepage. Internal users, go to Sharepoint and search for Veterinary Medicine and Surgery.
Impact
Investigators in MD Anderson’s Houston campuses perform clinical and basic cancer research involving laboratory animals including improved cancer treatments and diagnostic procedures, chemotherapeutic and immunologic agents, surgical procedures, radiotherapy and combinations of multiple modalities.
Basic cancer research is conducted in support of patient care in the above areas as well, but also includes other animal use areas such as cancer biology, genetics, biochemistry, molecular therapeutics, immunology, pathology, pharmacology, biomathematics, neurology, anesthesiology and veterinary medicine and surgery.
Acknowledgment
Please use the following text when acknowledging the core: “The Research Animal Support Facility was supported in part by The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and P30CA016672.”
Go to the Acknowledgment page to see guidelines on whether the efforts of core personnel merit authorship.
Contact
Phone: 713-792-2780
Email: DVMS-Info@mdanderson.org