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Subject: Important Changes in LSU Animal
Protocol Approval Process
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 17:21:55 -0500
Colleagues,
Effective immediately, the LSU
IACUC has instituted the following important changes in the animal protocol
approval process:
1. 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 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.
2. It is recommended that when you know that a grant application is going to
be funded, you then submit an Animal Use Protocol. The OSP cannot accept or
release funds until an Animal Use Protocol has been approved.
3. Even if a protocol is not required at the time of grant application,
continue to bring your routing sheet to Dawn in DLAM so that she can sign
it. She will also indicate "Just-in-time" on the "Vertebrate Animals" line
where your protocol number is usually written. The OSP cannot process your
grant application unless they know that no protocol is needed until the
award is made.
4. 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).
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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 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.
Thank you.
Please contact me or
Dr. Kathy
O'Reilly (IACUC Chair)
with any questions.
David
David G. Baker, DVM, MS, PhD,
DACLAM
Director and Professor
Division of Laboratory Animal Medicine
School of Veterinary Medicine
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
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