2008-2009
INSTITUTIONAL ANIMAL CARE AND USE COMMITTEE
PURPOSE:The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee is responsible for reviewing and approving research protocols using non-human animals and to inspect facilities used to maintain them to ensure ethical treatment of animals by faculty and student researchers.
COMPOSITION:Director of Research, Grants, and Contracts, six members serving three-year overlapping terms and one public member to represent general community interests in the proper care and use of animals. One of the five committee members must be a faculty member from a non-animal use background, and one committee member must be a doctor of veterinary medicine and serve as consulting veterinarian. The chair of the Committee will be elected by the outgoing Committee.
REPORTING CHANNEL: Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs MEMBERSHIP:
(*Indicates ex-officio member of the Committee) |