Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
About:
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) oversees the University’s animal care and use program and is responsible for reviewing all animal care applications using vertebrate animals, ensuring compliance with federal animal welfare regulations, inspecting animal facilities and investigator laboratories, investigating animal concerns, and overseeing training and educational programs. Continue Here
- NIH/PHS Animal Welfare Assurance Number: D16-00256 (A3410-01) expiration April 30, 2025
- USDA Animal Research Facility Registration Number: 55-R-0004
- AAALAC Institutional Number: #329 (Last re-accreditation November 2023)
Important Information:
Reporting Non-Compliance, Animal Welfare Issues, or Unanticipated Adverse Outcomes
Adverse Weather and Reduced Operations
IACUC Documents Updated in the Past Six Months:
- Updated 4/2024 – Standard on Assignment of Animals Into Pain Categories
- Updated 4/2024 – Standard on Animal Transport and Biosecurity
- Updated 4/2024 – Standard on Rodent Survival Surgery
- Updated 3/2024 – Standard on Documentation of “Monthly Principal Investigator (PI) Check Sheet”
- Updated 3/2024 – Monthly Principal Investigator (PI) Check Sheet
- Updated 3/2024 – Standard on Rat Cage Density
- Updated 2/2024 – Standard on Mouse Cage Density
- Updated 2/2024 – Reporting Non-Compliance, Animal Welfare Issues, or Unanticipated Adverse Outcomes
- Updated 1/2024 – University Standard for Reporting Non-Compliance with the Approved Animal Use Protocol, Animal Welfare Issues, and Unanticipated Adverse Outcomes
- Updated 11/2023 – SOP for Euthanasia of Research Rodents
- Updated 11/2023 – Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) Program – Mission, Responsibility, and Membership