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The Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Tracy Helman Animal Facilities Manager The Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (Peter Mac) is Australia’s largest specialist Cancer Centre. Peter Mac offers the full range of multidisciplinary treatments and clinical care for people with cancer, as well as education and research programs. Peter Mac is the only such comprehensive cancer centre in Australia, and today provides…
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New York Blood Center – Cell Signaling Laboratory
Patrycja Dubielecka, PhD. Senior Research Fellow I have worked in an animal facility since 2006. In August 2008 Cell Signaling Laboratory (where I am completing my postdoctoral training) purchased rotating racks for mice cages storage. Cages in the new racks are easily accessible, their capacity of cages storage is greater in comparison to the previously…
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New York Blood Center – Laboratory Animal Research Service
Kathy Tang Manager We have been using Optimice cages for almost three years, and we would like to convert all of our animal rooms in the future. We decided to purchase this caging system for several reasons. We have a small amount of space available in our animal rooms, our HVAC is old, and we…
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Monash University – Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
David Shackleford, PhD Biopharmaceutics Section Leader When designing our In Vivo studies laboratory, we identified at the outset that we would install the M.I.C.E. units for rats and mice. This was partly because M.I.C.E. racks were already being used in one of the other laboratories within the facility, but also because of the experienced, professional…
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Lynx Product Group
Donald M. Basil President We have received Animal Care Systems cages for our testing procedures on our Lynx Tunnel Cage Washer. In accordance with our testing procedures we have confirmed the fact that we can wash, dry, and automatically flip the pie-shaped cage into our bedding dispenser and properly fill the cage with bedding. We…
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The Institute of Cancer Research
Allan Thornhill FIAT, RAnTech Manager BSU, NACWO We have used the Optimice system in our institute very successfully. For our particular application we could not accommodate an IVC rack in the room because of its dimensions and so we looked at Optimice as a solution. We can get 200 cages in the same floor area…
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University of California, San Francisco – Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases
I’d like to take this opportunity to share with you our experiences with the M.I.C.E. caging system technology. Two years ago we were asked to house and breed SCID mice for an experimental project. We were reluctant to even begin this project as our facility is a “conventional” facility. We have several mouse pathogens present…
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Geron Corporation
Karen Delavan-Boorsma Geron Corporation We still think the most of our Optimice racks! They really have proved to be the best. We finally got rid of all our other cage systems for the mice. There is virtually no animal odor in that room — just amazing. The caging has become a part of our occupational…
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Boston Children’s Hospital – Zetter Lab
Vladimir Vrbanac, DVM Boston Children’s Hospital – Zetter Lab Dear Ed, I would like to congratulate you for the purchase of the new small rodent racks. I find this Optimice system superior in more than one way than the previous systems that we had in the animal rooms. Next to most obvious advantages, like lager…
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UCLA Radiation Oncology
Director, Defined Flora Mouse Facility UCLA Radiation Oncology I find the Animal Care Systems ventilated racks to be a superb addition to my facility. They are easily moved from room to room. There is virtually no unpleasant odor in the rooms in which we use them (versus static racks and cages). I can tell you…