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Institutional
Animal Care and Use Committee Resources
Dr. Susan C. Eades, IACUC Chair
Ms. Dawn Best-Desjardins, Administrative
Coordinator
Dr. David G. Baker, Attending Veterinarian
Effective immediately,
the LSU IACUC has instituted the following important changes in the
animal protocol approval process:
Animal Use Protocols will only be required at the time of submission
of a grant application if the funding agency requires it. If the
funding agency (e.g. NIH and NSF) does not require protocol approval
until a grant application is approved for an award, you do not need
to submit a protocol before that time. The investigator will
determine whether an approved protocol is required at the time of
grant submission or only at the time of grant award.
It is recommended that when you know that a grant application is
going to be funded, you then submit an animal use protocol. The Office
of Sponsored Programs
cannot accept or release funds until the protocol has been
approved.
Even if a protocol is not required at the time of grant application,
Ms. Dawn Best-Desjardins in DLAM is required to sign your electronic routing sheet. She will indicate "Just-in-Time"
for "Vertebrate Animals" use. The OSP cannot process your grant application
unless they know that a protocol is not needed until the award is made.
These changes do not affect projects for which funds are already in
hand (e.g. departmental funds), or as indicated above, for grant
applications for which animal use protocols are required by the
funding agency at the time of grant submission (e.g. USDA and
others).
Remember that you must have an approved animal use protocol before
animals can be obtained or used for teaching or research purposes,
regardless of funding source.
If you anticipate that a grant application will be funded and there
may be a short "turn-around" time between notification and
establishment of an account (e.g. internal awards), you can request
that the IACUC review your protocol before the award is made.
At the time you submit an animal use protocol, you will also be
asked to submit one copy of any grant(s) funding the work described
in the protocol. The University must assure the federal government
that all of the animal work described in your grant(s) is covered
under an approved Animal Use Protocol. We will do a side-by-side
comparison of your grant(s) and animal use protocol(s) to verify
congruency and meet this requirement. The animal use protocol will
not be approved by the IACUC until congruency has been verified.
Clearly, these changes are intended to: 1) eliminate the need for
investigators to write animal use protocols for projects that are
never funded; 2) reduce the time spent by the IACUC members
reviewing and discussing protocols; and 3) establish a mechanism to
assure that animal use described in grants is covered by an approved
animal use protocol, in accordance with federal law.
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LSU
Animal Use
Protocol Form
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DLAM Biohazard Safety Posting Form for Animal Rooms
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AVMA Guidelines on Euthanasia
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CDC Office of Health and Safety
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IACUC Policies
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Laboratory Animal Formulary
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LSU Animal Program Description
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LSU Inter-Institutional Biological and Recombinant DNA Safety
Committee
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LSU
Chemical Safety (when using hazardous chemicals in
animal rooms)
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LSU Office
of Sponsored Programs
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LSU Radiation Safety Office
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Power Analysis for Determining Numbers of Animals Needed
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