Compliance
Institutional Animal Care & Use CommitteeIACUC
The committee that reviews and approves research involving vertebrate animals.
The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee reviews and approves the use of vertebrate animals in research, ensuring protocols meet the PHS Policy and the Animal Welfare Act. Approval of an animal protocol is required before the work, and often the funding: can start.
Protocols are reviewed periodically, and the animal use in a grant has to stay consistent with the approved protocol.
Why it matters
Animal work that outruns its approved protocol is a reportable compliance problem that can suspend the research.
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