The BRF is located on the North Campus of NC State in Raleigh, North Carolina. It is situated adjacent to Gardner Hall and contains approximately 20,000 square feet. It is a modern, climate controlled, restricted access facility including office and administrative support space, a clinical laboratory, necropsy and preparation rooms and a surgical suite. Environmental chambers allow investigators even more flexibility in control of temperature, humidity and lighting conditions for their research animals.

About one-fifth of the space in the BRF is devoted to an Insectary, in which many types of insects are reared to aid investigators in the Department of Entomology. Other departments with research interests here include Animal Science; Environmental and Molecular Toxicology; Food Science; Genetics; Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences; Molecular and Structural Biochemistry; Microbiology; Population Health and Pathobiology; and Zoology. The BRF accommodates the research and teaching needs of about 20 faculty members at NC State, and works cooperatively with researchers from private industry and other governmental agencies.

The BRF allows the research endeavors of the CALS faculty to be centralized. Centralization permits increased opportunities for collaboration among faculty members of different departments. It also prevents redundancy of research efforts and equipment, hence allowing devotion of resources to research. The BRF fulfills a valuable need in CALS, providing a site for the humane care of research animals.

Our Promise

Perhaps at no time in human history has biological research progressed so rapidly or held so much promise. With the understanding we now have of the molecular underpinnings of life, we can ask--and answer--important new questions.

Yet, as much as we know about life processes, there is so much more we do not know. Biological research does, indeed, hold great promise. Scientific observation of animals is likely to lead to treatments for an array of human and animal ailments as well as strategies to improve the production and quality of food and fiber and many other advances. But that promise never will be realized unless we continue to question, to experiment.

American Association of Laboratory Animal Science

American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine

American Veterinary Medical Association

Foundation for Biomedical Research

Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals

Laboratory Animal Welfare Training Exchange

Laboratory Animal Jeopardy

North Carolina Association for Biomedical Research

North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine Laboratory Animal Resources

Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare

Research Triangle Branch--AALAS