Portal South - our offer

Our Objectives

• Promote translational research and improve the collaboration between KI, Karolinska University Hospital, Region Stockholm (RS) and other national and international collaborators.
• Developement, production and cryopreservation of valuable genetically modified animal models.
• Apply the 3R principles by reducing the number of animals in breeding and prevent the drift of the genetic modified strains (refine) via cryopreservation and biobank.

Our Services

• Import/export live animals/frozen embryos and sperm from all over the world.
• Import/export biological samples.
• Apply and obtain all necessary permissions for import/export.
• Cryopreservation and rederivation.
• Embryo/sperm isolation, in vitro fertilization (IVF) and embryos transfer.
• Cleansing of different strains.

Your benefits

Cryopreservation

• Minimize genetic drift caused by long term breeding.
• Reduce the usage of animals and the cost for maintaining colonies.
• Preventing the spontaneous loss of phenotype.
• Preventing the loss of genetic modified strains in case of infections.

Rederivation

• Produce high standard SPF (specific pathogen free) mice.
• Promote international collaborations by importing/exporting between countries within EU and outside EU. 
• Facilitating animal transfer from lower to higher barrier between different facilities.

Import/export embryo/sperm

• Eliminate the stress factor when importing live animals.
• Minimize the risk of infection from different airports.
• Simplify the import/export procedure.

Worldwide import/export

Your animals or frozen embryos/sperm are professionally and safely handled.

Cryobank and freezing maintenance

Your animal strains are properly cryo-preserved in biobank and stored safely.