Charles River Laboratories, Inc. 251 Ballardvale Street Wilmington, MA 01887-1000, phone: 978-658-6000. Charles River Laboratories provides research models and lab animal support services, preclinical services, and clinical services to the biomedical market. The company focuses on improving human and animal health by becoming advancing the search for drugs from discovery through market approval. Charles River supplies lab animals for research which in turn accelerates drug discovery and development by providing investigators with tailored research models and laboratory animal support services. Their lab animal models span the entire drug development process, from discovery through market approval, providing researchers a seamless partnership throughout.From the global standardization of our research models, to the high standards we set for our professional team and our state-of-the-art facilities and technologies, we can customize our products and services to meet customer’s specific research needs. With facilities around the world, Charles River is the ideal partner for moving a compound from animal to man in a rational, cost-effective, and timely manner.

Hilltop Lab Animals, Inc., Hilltop Drive, Scottdale, Pennsylvania 15683, phone 724-887-8480. Hilltop Lab Animals, Inc. has been suppling lab animals to the scientific community since 1928 and specializes in sourcing CVF® and surgically modified lab animals. The compay quickly developed a reputation for supplying quality research animals as reasonable prices and throughout the years has continued to build up its knowledge base, enabling the company to produce high quality mice, rats and guinea pigs. Hilltop supplies many different strains of lab animals to universities, the pharmaceutical industry, contract organizations, hospitals, government laboratories, and facilities for toxicological testing. Hilltop has maintained an excellent reputation in the animal industry for producing a top quality lab animals.

Harlan Laboratories, Inc., 8520 Allison Pointe Blvd., Suite 400, Indianapolis, IN 46250, phone 800 793-7287. Harlan is best known for lab animal research models, lab animal diets, and bedding supplies. The company boasts a rich heritage of quality, consistencyin lab animal models and strains.Harlan began as a midwestern regional provider of lab animal research models over 70 years ago and their lab animal model remains a core competency of the company to this day. Lab animal research models and services is Harlan Laboratories’ major business unit. After meny years of service the company was renamed Harlan Sprague Dawley and marked the beginning of significant overseas expansion of its lab animal research models which included European diversification of its research models mainly through Swiss contract research.

The Jackson Laboratory, JAX® Mice and Services, 600 Main Street, Bar Harbor, Maine 04609 USA, phone 207-288-6000.This lab animal supplier is an independent, nonprofit organization focusing on mammalian genetics research to advance human health. The company provides genetics research services and resources to laboratories throughout the world and educates students of all ages via courses, internships and seminars. The Jackson Laboratory uses the mouse lab animal model as a research tool mainly because the similarity of the mouse genome to the human genome (95% homology). Of all lab animals this makes mice the most effective and efficient lab animal model for human diseases. The company also provides many scientific techniques, resources, software and data to student and scientists throughout the United States. They breed and manage colonies of mice and other lab animal models in order to supply research institutions and laboratories. JAX® mice, supplied by the Jackson Laboratory, are the most frequently cited strains in biomedical research publications. In competition with thousands of other mouse strains, the company offers the world’s largest and ever-expanding collection of lab animal research models available. research done using the JAX® mice strain have been referenced thousands of peer-reviewed publications. Databases hosted by The Jackson Laboratory, contain additional phenotypic and genetic information. Databases hosted by The Jackson Laboratory include the Mouse Genome Database and the Mouse Phenome Database.