Location
Building #141, San 56-1, Sillim-dong, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 151-742, Korea
Tel: 82-2-880-8727

History and Objective
The center is established in December, 1996, to support the researchers in carrying out animal experiments. The center is provided with proper management systems for keeping experimental animals, and equipped with facilities like special cleaning and sterilization section and sophisticated instruments, for conducting animal experiment, animal breeding and microbiological experiments.
A support service team, consisting of one assistant and three animal feeders, is in charge of the maintenance of the facilities related to animal experiment. A group of professors, in charge of the animal experiments, and the steering committee of the institute jointly examine and take decision on all relevant matters starting form legal regulations and ethical rules linked to animal experiment to expansion and improvement of facilities like installation of equipments and personnel recruitment. The administration committee, formed in late 1998 to upgrade the level of animal experiment, first scrutinizes the experimental plan and then confirms the ethical procedures. The regulations for managing and using animals have been made based on the Guide for the care and use of laboratory animals (ILARM national Research Council, USA).