The Laboratory Rat

Edited by:   Mark A. Suckow (Associate Vice President for Research Attending Veterinarian University of Kentucky USA.), F. Claire Hankenson (Director, MSU Campus Animal Resources, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA), Ronald P. Wilson (Professor and Chair, Department of Comparative Medicine, Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA), Patricia L. Foley (Director, Division of Comparative Medicine, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA)
Imprint:   Academic Press Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   3rd edition
Dimensions:   Height: 276mm,  Width: 215mm, 
Weight:   3.330kg
ISBN:   9780128143384
ISBN 10:   012814338X
Series:   American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine
Pages:   1180
Publication Date:   11 November 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Mark Suckow received his DVM from the University of Wisconsin in 1987 and subsequently completed a post-doctoral residency in laboratory animal medicine at the University of Michigan in 1990. He spent 8 years as a clinical laboratory animal veterinarian at Purdue University and then 17 years at the University of Notre Dame where he served as Director of the Freimann Life Science Center and later as Associate Vice President for Research Compliance. Prior to coming to the University of Kentucky, he was Professor of Veterinary Population Medicine and Director, Research Animal Resources at the University of Minnesota. With an interest in cancer models, biomaterials models, and vaccines, Dr. Suckow has functioned as an independent and collaborative investigator and has published in refereed journals and has seven issued patents related to vaccine adjuvants and cancer vaccines. He has written or edited over 20 books on topics related to research and laboratory animal medicine. Further, he served as the 2006 President of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science and the 2011 President of the American Society of Laboratory Animal Practitioners; and currently he serves on the AVMA Council on Research and is a member of the Council on Accreditation of AAALAC, International. F. Claire Hankenson, DVM, MS, is the Director of MSU Campus Animal Resources and Attending Veterinarian at the Michigan State University. Research interests are refinements in the case and use of animals involved in research studies, particularly rodent clinical medicine, tail biopsy evaluations and humane endpoints. Ronald P. Wilson, VMA, MS, DACLAM, is the Professor and Chair of Comparative Medicine at Pennsylvania State University. Research interests are related to experimental surgery, pain, analgesia and anesthesia of laboratory animals. Patricia L. Foley, DVM, DCLAM, is the Director, Division of Comparative Medicine at Georgetown University.