The Laboratory Animal Center was established as the “Joint Use Facility and Animal Room as a part of the Applied Medicial Research Laboratory in 1974. It was re-established as the “Laboratory Animal Center” during the move to the Kimiidera Campus in 1999.
The Center supports animal experiments carried out in the University. In addition to rearing laboratory animals, it has in place the environment required for more advanced animal experiments and supplies data and information relevant to animal experiments.

The Center has a total area of about 1980 m2. The rearing room is set at a temperature of 23±1°C, 50-60% humidity, with illumination from 8:00 to 20:00 (12L12D). Animals reared include mice (maximum storage capacity of 21,935 animals), rats (maximum storage capacity of 730 animals), hamsters, gerbils, guinea pigs, rabbits (maximum storage capacity of 114 animals), dogs, monkeys (maximum storage capacity of eight animals), and chickens.

The Center is equipped with a rearing room with an air conditioning system that uses a one-way airstream method to prevent generation of smells and allergens from the animals and create a pleasant environment for researchers, a microbarrier system for rearing many genetically recombinant animals in a clean environment, an environmentally controlled rearing room with optionally programed temperature, humid, and lighting, and an experimental rearing room for experiments such as stress tests that require irritation of the animals to be prevented as far as possible. In addition, the Center is also involved in the creation of new genetically recombinant animals using gene editing technology and stock preservation of mutant strains.

At present, the Center is involved in a wide variety of basic research and applied research, including analysis of stress response in various organs, research into wound healing, research into pain mechanisms, analysis of obesity-related hormone induced genes, basic research into cancer immunotherapy, analysis of genes involved in organogenesis, and analysis of the roles of chemokines and cytokines in various diseases.