Laboratory Animal Facility Platform (LAF)

Technical and scientific expertise

• Compliance with animal testing legislation
• Production of mice under SPF health status for research use, without commercial purposes
• Maintenance of 80 different strains of mice, non-genetically and genetically modified, available under a very high health status monitored via a sentinel programme

Main equipment

• 13 mouse production rooms
• Laboratory equipped with sanitisation facilities

Applications

• Genetically modified mouse model
• Non-genetically modified mouse model

Services available to

• UCLouvain students, clinicians and researchers