Welcome to the Animal Resource Program Website

The Animal Resource Program (ARP) is committed to providing PSU faculty, staff and students with high quality, cost-effective research animal resources. In addition to suitable housing facilities and animal husbandry services for animals used in biomedical research, ARP provides veterinary and diagnostic services, personnel training and expertise in laboratory animal, agricultural and wildlife technology and medicine. ARP also provides veterinary oversight of agricultural animal facilities and wildlife used in research and teaching at Penn State.

ARP veterinarians are available to participate in collaborative research projects with PSU investigators. Areas of interest include animal behavior and welfare, infectious disease, and pathology. The ARP office is located in 101 Centralized Biological Laboratory. Office hours are from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm Monday through Friday. The phone number is (814) 865-1495. The FAX number is (814) 865-3685.

All animal facilities associated with the University Park campus are fully accredited with the Association for the Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care, International (AAALAC ).

Please use the links to the left or those embedded in the various documents at this site to find information relating to:

• Services provided by ARP
• Using the animal facilities
• Animal user training
• Sick or injured animals
• Animal pain
• Blood collection and substance administration
• Anesthesia, analgesia and surgery in research animals
• Physical restraint and food/fluid restriction
• Euthanasia methods
• Laws and regulations pertaining to research animals

This website does not contain information pertaining to the husbandry and management of livestock or wildlife species housed in facilities maintained by the College of Agriculture. Please refer to the Guide for the Care and Use of Agricultural Animals Used in Agricultural Research and Teaching (Federation of Animal Science Societies, January 1999) or resources related to the PSU College of Agriculture for information on animal species used in agricultural research.