Tag Archives: iacuc

RCRA Minimizing Administrative Burden While Maintaining Compliance

March 17, 2024

Author: Deepika Bhatia, AVP, RCRA Minimizing administrative burden in research while ensuring compliance with regulations is a critical challenge for research compliance teams. Here are a few strategies from the Emory Research Compliance & Regulatory Affairs (RCRA) team to achieve this balance:  Operationalizing streamlined processes, efficient communications to relevant stakeholders early and often, striving for an approach to […]

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Occupational Health Services (OHS)

March 17, 2024

Authors: Dr. Javier Valle, Medical Director, OHS & Cynthia Holbrook, Corporate Director, OHS Occupational Health Services (OHS) is the medical branch of an occupational and environmental health partnership with the Environmental Health and Safety Office (EHSO) to ensure the health and safety of the Emory community. Both branches directly support the Office of Research Administration […]

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IACUC Updates – December 2022

December 14, 2022

EU DAR Communication #1 regarding how to prepare for the 2023 AAALACI Site Visit for Emory’s re-accreditation. It is not to early to start preparing your lab! NEW TOOL FOR RESEARCHERS – Template for using flowmeters during CO2 Euthanasia – This is a tool to generate the SOP for using Flowmeters for Mouse and Rat CO2 Euthanasia […]

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IACUC Updates (October 2022)

October 27, 2022

Please see the some important IACUC updates below as of October 2022: EU DAR Communication #1 regarding how to prepare for the 2023 AAALACi Site Visit for Emory’s re-accreditation. It is not to early to start preparing your lab! NEW TOOL FOR RESEARCHERS – Template for using flowmeters during CO2 Euthanasia – This is a tool […]

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Updated IACUC Policies (August 2022)

August 22, 2022

The IACUC recently reviewed and updated a few policies. Please ensure that you review these updated policies if they apply to your research. See the list of updated policies here (the list would go into a separate page to avoid this section being so long):  1. Education and Training Requirements: This document includes the training requirements before […]

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IACUC Updates- Policies, eIACUC Maintenance, and Protocol Compliance

June 3, 2022

The IACUC recently approved the updates to the following Policies Adoption Policy: This document establishes policy and provides procedures for adoption of research animals from Emory University MPTP Guidelines: These guidelines recognize the scientific value of the MPTP model of parkinsonism and attempt to address the practical problems associated with the use of this agent. […]

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IACUC Office Updates- December 2021

December 15, 2021

Submission deadlines: December is a short month, please submit your renewals and updates early. The IACUC Committee meets on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the Month. Deadlines for FCR review are 4PM on the Wednesday one week PRIOR to the meeting date for the agenda to be disseminated to members. DMR reviews are rolling submissions […]

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Research Administration Administrative Transitions

September 14, 2021

As we commence the school year, a number of leadership changes are underway. We have developed a framework for a smooth transition, ensuring continuous service to faculty. COI Come December, we will say goodbye to Assistant Vice President for Research Administration and Conflicts of Interest Director, Brenda Seiton, who is retiring after 25 years at […]

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ORA Office Overview

August 30, 2020

The Office for Research Administration encompasses many individual offices, each of which retain expertise in different areas of the research process. Your first point of contact will usually be your local RAS representative. They will help you determine which of the other touchpoints are necessary to submit a grant application, conduct a clinical trial, or […]

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Process Improvement: IACUC Protocol Submission Process Streamlined

May 5, 2020

In order to reduce regulatory burden, and to better serve the research community, the requirement to allocate animal numbers to individual funding sources within an IACUC protocol has been removed effective Friday April 10th, 2020.  Approved animal numbers will now be allocated at the whole-protocol level.  Animal usage through the School of Medicine Division of […]

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