{"id":176,"date":"2025-02-02T08:34:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T13:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/researchfacultyloa\/?page_id=176"},"modified":"2025-06-10T08:10:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T12:10:50","slug":"iacuc-policies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/researchfacultyloa\/compliance-strategies\/iacuc-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Subjects\/IACUC Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If your research includes IACUC approved vertebrate animals, it is important to develop a plan.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Protocol Compliance &amp; Training: <\/strong>To ensure compliance with protocols and to prevent gaps in approval, check your research team&#8217;s training status and protocol renewal dates (see <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/researchfacultyloa\/compliance-strategies\/training\/\">compliance recommendations<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Contact the IACUC. <\/strong>It is helpful to let the IACUC office know that you have a designated person on a protocol to contact with any questions &amp; post-approval monitoring. <strong>Semi-Annual Inspections: <\/strong>Also consider designating an individual as the contact for semi-annual inspections.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Animal Health Concerns: <\/strong>You should also consider designating a proxy that will be available to respond to any health concern emails from laboratory animal care staff. These notifications are frequently time sensitive and require immediate responses. Contact <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/research\/cores\/asc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Animal Science Center Veterinary Staff<\/a> to let them know about your leave.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your research includes IACUC approved vertebrate animals, it is important to develop a plan. Protocol Compliance &amp; Training: To ensure compliance with protocols and to prevent gaps in approval, check your research team&#8217;s training status and protocol renewal dates (see compliance recommendations). Contact the IACUC. It is helpful to let the IACUC office know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1191,"featured_media":0,"parent":40,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/no-sidebars.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/researchfacultyloa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/researchfacultyloa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/researchfacultyloa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/researchfacultyloa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/researchfacultyloa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/researchfacultyloa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1103,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/researchfacultyloa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176\/revisions\/1103"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/researchfacultyloa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/researchfacultyloa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}