The SPBA Center is an interdepartmental center approved as a Research and Services Center. The aim of this Center is to promote and to strength, through interdisciplinary integration and the best use of resources, the possibilities of research, innovation and the training of skills in the Departments constituting the Center, and in the Sapienza Community, supporting and rationalizing common activities aimed at the housing and welfare of animals used for experimental purposes, in compliance with the European Directive 2010/63 / EU and Legislative Decree 26/2014.