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Mouse Biology Program and UC Davis Health awarded nearly $4 million to study models of obesity and diabetes

Posted on January 14, 2023

The UC Davis Health Department of Surgery has received $3.75 million to launch a high-profile center where researchers can study metabolic disorders using mouse models. The goal is to learn more about the same diseases in humans. The National Center for Metabolic Phenotyping of Mouse Models of Obesity and Diabetes…Read more


Annual Stakeholder Report 2020-2021

Posted on September 30, 2020

Launching the Next Decade of Service This past year (2020-2021) marks 22 years since the UC Davis Mouse Biology Program (MBP) began serving the mouse modeling needs of the campus community. Now entering its 23rd year, the MBP remains the only one-stop in-house resource of unique expertise, services, and training…Read more


NIH Grant to Create Humanized Mice Susceptible to COVID-19

Posted on August 5, 2020

The National Institutes of Health has awarded a grant of $1.2 million to the Mouse Biology Program at the University of California, Davis, to create mice that are susceptible to the COVID-19 virus. The goal is to create mice that can be used to reproduce human COVID-19 disease, said Kent…Read more


UC Davis receives $6.7M for 5-year renewal of its NIH Mutant Mouse Resource & Research Center

Posted on May 1, 2020

It is well understood in biomedical research community that mice are a preferred mammalian disease model because of their high genetic homology with humans, rapid reproduction, efficient housing and husbandry, easily characterized phenotypes, and well developed resources and tools for genetic manipulation. As the need for genetically engineered mice grows…Read more


MBP Now A Special Research Program Under Office Of Research

Posted on February 28, 2020

As the Mouse Biology Program (MBP) begins its third decade of service as a scientific resource for campus researchers, we are pleased to announce that effective March 1st we will join the UC Davis Office of Research. This move will place MBP in a better position to support the needs…Read more


MMRRC Announces Acquisition of KOMP Repository

Posted on February 10, 2020

The Mutant Mouse Resource and Research Center (MMRRC), the official National Institute of Health (NIH) repository of mouse models, is pleased to announce the availability of genetically-altered mice and embryonic stem (ES) cells made as part of the NIH Knockout Mouse Project (KOMP) and previously maintained in the KOMP Repository.…Read more


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