Institute of Biomedical Research and InnovationDepartment of Animal Experimentation

A researcher / Research focus

Aim to provide safe breeding environment and high-level support for experimental animals

The Department of Animal Experimentation, Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation at Kobe, is a breeding facility for experimental animals managed and operated in accordance with the “Guidelines on the Animal Experimentation, Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation at Kobe,” based on the “Act on Welfare and Management of Animals.” The Department is staffed with laboratory animal specialists and technicians of reproduction technology, and those researchers at the IBRI support conducting cutting-edge breeding practices and animal experiments safely from the perspectives of science, animal protection, and environmental conservation, aiming at contribution to the development of life science in the Kobe Biomedical Innovation Cluster.

  • Breeding facility
    for SPF
    mice and rats
  • Open rack and
    individual cage
    with ventilation
    system
  • The Department
    of Animal Experimentation
    to correspond
    with the ABSL2.
Specialists in animal breeding manage mice.
This Department is managed and operated in accordance with the “Guidelines on the Animal Experimentation, Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation at Kobe,” based on the “Act on Welfare and Management of Animals” and the “Standards Relating to the Care and Management of Laboratory Animals and Relief of Pain.”
Reproductive technology specialists can help introduce a variety of mice.
The Department is maintained under SPF microbial control; when animals are introduced from an external research institute, we will assist in individualization and introduction by reproductive engineering methods.

  • Open rack

  • Cage rack with individual ventilation

  • Water bottle filling device

  • Breeding work

  • Reproductive engineering room

  • Reproductive engineering work

  • Autoclave

  • Cage washer & gas washer

  • Ozone disinfection equipment (generation & decomposition)