The relevance of engineering and technical solutions implemented in the branch of IBCh RAS, and modern problems of vivariums and breeding facility of laboratory animals

The article discusses the relevance of engineering and technical solutions that were implemented in the Branch of Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of Russian Academy of Sciences (IBH RAS) in the 1980s when designing a laboratory building with a vivarium and a nursery of laboratory animals free of pathogens (SPF). Such laboratory animals are used when performing preclinical studies according to the international standard of good laboratory practice (GLP).