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 2020)
Important Information:
Reporting Animal Welfare Concerns or Self-Reporting Incidents
Adverse Weather and Reduced Operations
IACUC Documents Updated in the Past Six Months:
- Updated 12/2022 – Standard on Use of Adjuvants for Antibody Production
- Updated 12/2022 – Standard on Exercise and Socialization of Canines
- Updated 11/2022 – Standard on Pain Identification and Post-Operative Analgesia
- Updated 10/2022 – Standard on Satellite Animal Facilities
- Updated 10/2022 – Standard on Animal Procedural Space Exception (APSE)
- Updated 9/2022 – Reporting Animal Welfare Concerns or Self-Reporting Incidents
- Updated 8/2022 – Standard on Anesthetized Non-Surgical Procedures for Rats and Mice
- Updated 7/2022 – Standard on Rodent Survival Surgery
- Updated 7/2022 – Standard on Survival Surgeries for USDA-Covered Species
- Updated 7/2022 – Standard on Rat Cage Density
- Updated 7/2022 – Standard on Disposal of Rodent Carcasses
- Updated 7/2022 – Standard on Tumor Production and Cancer Research in Mice and Rats