LAF Contacts

The Laboratory Animal Facility (LAF) staff includes several professionals highly capable of providing professional animal care, training researchers and managing the facilities in support of your research goals.  

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Clinical veterinarians handle veterinary and technical services while also supervising veterinary technicians. The business manager supervises the administrative services and the facility manager is responsible for animal husbandry and infrastructural services.

Principal and senior laboratory animal caretakers are assigned within the various facilities according to unit size and animal population.

  • All units are staffed 7:30 AM to 3:30 PM on weekdays and 7:30 AM to 11:15 on weekends and holidays.
  • The main office is open 7:30 AM to 5:00 PM on weekdays.

Mailing Address:

Laboratory Animal Facilities
116 Biomedical Education Building
3435 Main Street
Buffalo N.Y. 14214

Delivery Address:

Laboratory Animal Facilities
23 Biomedical Education Building
3435 Main Street
Buffalo N.Y. 14214

Phone: (716) 829-2919
Fax: (716) 829-3249
LAF e-mail: cm-laf@research.buffalo.edu

Animal purchasing is located in Room 220 Biomedical Education Building and is open 7:30 AM to 3:30 PM on weekdays.

Phone: (716) 829-2548
Fax: (716) 829-2549
E-mail: cm-laf@research.buffalo.edu

Animal receiving is located in Room 23 Biomedical Education Building and is open 7:30 AM to 3:30 PM on weekdays.

Phone: (716) 829-2340
E-Mail: cm-laf@research.buffalo.edu

After working hours:

Public Safety

If there is a need to contact anyone within the LAF after working hours or on weekends or holidays, call Public Safety/University Police at 645-2222. Public Safety has an emergency roster of key employees and will contact the appropriate individual. Make sure to leave a clear message and your telephone number.

Physical Plant

For physical plant emergencies on weekeends call 645-2025, for weekdays call 645-2028 x7.

Veterinary On Call

In case of animal emergency please contact veterinary On call.

Veterinary Emergencies