Rodent and Rabbit Facilities

The University of Cambridge has extensive rodent and rabbit facilities that are capable of hosting rats, mice, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs and mole rats. The field research is broad but some areas include neuroscience, oncology, developmental biology, immunology, cardiovascular, nephrology, respiratory, gastroenterology, metabolic and haematology to name a few. 

The facilities include the following spaces and equipment to help support all research needs:

  • Holding rooms

  • Breeding rooms

  • Procedure rooms

  • Mouse and Rat Hypoxic chambers

  • Containment Level 2 spaces

  • Quarantine spaces

  • MRI scanner

  • PET/CT scanner

  • Specialist Containment Level 2 Surgical Space

  • Surgical Spaces with stereotaxic equipment

  • Recovery rooms

  • Containment Level 3 spaces

  • Prion Rooms

  • Behaviour rooms

  • Imaging rooms

  • Perfusion rooms

  • IVIS

  • Echo

  • Echo/MRI

  • Tissue Collection rooms