Vivarium Insourcing
Mispro offers comprehensive Vivarium Insourcing services on-site in your facility
Are you operating a vivarium but don't want to manage the day-to-day of animal husbandry, compliance oversight, and staffing? We can help.
What's Included with Vivarium Insourcing
Mispro Vivarium Insourcing is a comprehensive on-site service that transfers animal care, compliance, and staffing to Mispro’s rodent vivarium experts while clients retain full control of study design, data collection, and scientific direction.
Mispro Insourcing is available in Metro Boston, Metro New York, and the Bay Area.
Mispro IACUC: Assuring Better Outcomes
Included with Mispro Insourcing services, our independent IACUC safeguards animal welfare while strengthening scientific rigor. From protocol development through expedited review and amendments, Mispro’s highly credentialed veterinary and scientific leadership helps ensure compliant, reproducible research from day one.
- Highly-credentialed, published veterinary and scientific leadership (PhD; DVM; CPIA)
- Protocol development assistance
- Protocol review & approval
- Accelerated protocol amendments approval
- Ensuring adherence to the 3Rs in humane animal research
In Vivo Technical Services
Available as an add-on service to Insourcing, Mispro's Technical Services provides experienced, credentialed animal research technicians to support or train your team, expanding bandwidth, increasing schedule flexibility, and keeping internal operations lean.
- Basic biomethodology
- Surgical support
- Necropsy
- Breeding colony management
- Mouse handling & general skills training
FAQs
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Is Mispro Insource a full-time employee (FTE) service?
Mispro Insource is a full-service solution for operating client-owned vivarium facilities, providing staffing and management, animal husbandry and veterinary care, regulatory compliance, and AAALAC accreditation.
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Does Insourcing include equipment?
Clients provide their own core equipment in their vivarium facility. Mispro can provide disposable equipment such as disposable cages and water bottles. We can also help clients procure equipment to outfit a facility.
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Do we still need a vivarium manager if we use Mispro’s Insource solution?
Yes, most Insource clients have a vivarium manager who acts as liaison with Mispro and usually manages the clients’ laboratory animal science program. If you do not have a manager, Mispro can still operate and manage your vivarium.
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Can Mispro help with vivarium design?
Yes. Mispro offers expertise and consultation for vivarium design for rodent vivaria.
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Is AAALAC accreditation included with Insourcing?
Yes, Mispro is an AAALAC-accredited organization and all of our managed facilities and services receive AAALAC accreditation.
What Our Clients Say
"Our experience working with Mispro has been really great. Both the facility supervisor and the IACUC coordinator have been a great help to our team. From the set-up of our rooms to managing the daily needs for our animal studies, to helping with our animal protocols, their level of service is commendable."
Sr. Scientist, KalVista
"The service and help I receive from Mispro’s team on a daily basis is outstanding. They are very efficient and promptly accommodate any request that we have, which has enabled Casebia to successfully complete our studies within tight deadlines. Mispro really does a great job!"
Sr. Scientist, Casebia Therapeutics
"Mispro has been a key partner in Kallyope’s success. Everything they offer from animal care services to IACUC has always been performed exceptionally and rapidly. Animal work is one of the cornerstones of our company and Mispro has been instrumental in helping facilitate success in our studies."
Head of Operations
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