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)
• USDA Animal Research Facility Registration Number: 55-R-0004
• AAALAC Institutional Number: #329 (Last re-accreditation June 2017)

Important Information:

Reporting Animal Welfare Concerns or Animal Protocol Noncompliance

Adverse Weather and Reduced Operations

IACUC Documents Updated in the Past Six Months:

• Updated 10/23/19 – University Standard for Administered Agents
• Updated 10/14/19 – Monthly Principal Investigator (PI) Check Sheet Template
• Updated 10/14/19 – How To Become A Laboratory Animal Coordinator
• Updated 10/1/19 – Mouse Colony Management Lecture
• Updated 9/9/19 – University Standard for Rodent Survival Surgery
• Updated 7/23/19 – University Standard for Animal Transport and Biosecurity
• Updated 06/07/19 – University Standard for Tumor Production and Cancer Research in Mice and Rats
• Updated 06/07/19 – University Standard for Administered Agents
• Updated 05/08/19 – Mouse Cage Density Lecture