Vertebrate Animals in Research

Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC)

• Animal Contact Review and Initial Health Surveillance Questionnaire (doc)
• Animal Welfare Assurance
• IACUC Membership
• Instructions for IACUC Proposal Submission (pdf)
• Protocol Review, Checklist for Required Content (doc)
• Protocol for Animal Use Form (doc)
  • Instructions for Protocol for Animal Use Form
• Regulations, Policies, and Standards for the Care and Use of Animal Subjects

Other Resources:

• USDA Animal Welfare Information Center
• USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
  • APHIS Animal Care web site
  • APHIS Licensing and Registration Under the Animal Welfare Act Guidelines for Dealers, Exhibitors, Transporters, and Researchers) (pdf)
  • Definition of an Animal (pdf)

• NIH Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW)
  • Public Health Service Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals; HTML or PDF
• The American Physiological Society answers questions about the use of animals in research.
• Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals from the National Academies Press