Consulting

For more than 20 years, SoBran has collaborated with clients to ensure that their biomedical research efforts are conducted in the most professional and effective manner and maintain the highest levels of quality assurance. With a focus on driving programmatic improvement for clients, onsite and virtual consulting is available for a host of critical program components:

Facility design – SoBran has designed dozens of purpose-built facilities in conventional, barrier, and biocontainment environments (ABSL II-III).

Standard operating procedures (SOPs) – Committed to quality control, SoBran develops and updates SOPs for all animal care contracts.

Biosecurity/disease surveillance – From a basic disease surveillance program to a comprehensive biosecurity program, the risk of your research falling victim to a disease is minimized.

Regulatory support – Navigate current federal regulations to keep your animal care and use programs compliant and design programs for PHS Assurance and AAALAC International accreditation.

Animal research protocol development – Appropriate animal research protocol models ensure the protocol meets current regulatory requirements and prepare the protocol for IACUC review.

Biosafety/biocontainment – Meet biosafety and biosecurity requirements through recruiting plans for ABSL environments, training programs, and guidance on implementing a robust Quality Assurance plan.

Personnel training – Have personnel trained at all levels, including cage wash, animal husbandry, technical staffing and management.