The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee is holding mandatory information sessions in January and February 2012 for principal investigators with active IACUC protocols.

Research Animal Resources has published its fiscal year 2012 per diem rate projections. Most rates are unchanged, a few are increased slightly, and some mouse box rates have decreased primarily due to improved husbandry efficiency. Although these rates are tentative and may change pending the outcome of a cost analysis study currently underway, researchers can [...]

Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) is pleased to present its annual Information Sessions.  The Information Sessions offer an opportunity for faculty to interact with IACUC chairs and administration, and to hear about the process, recent improvements and changes for the coming year.  This year, the sessions will emphasize the changes to the Guide [...]

Under the revisions to the NIH Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant DNA Molecules effective January 19, the breeding of transgenic rodents that may be housed under BL1 containment conditions is exempt from the NIH Guidelines with the exception of: Breeding experiments involving transgenic rodents that contain more than 50 percent of the genome of an [...]