Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC)

The forms below are current.  Submissions received on outdated forms will be returned to the PI without review.  

Forms must be emailed to jwhitloc@mcg.edu by the submission deadline to be reviewed by the IACUCs next convened meeting.  Expedited Review - The committee discourages this type of review.  An email must be sent to Ms. Jenny Whitlock explaining "the urgency for the expedited review".

The following format can be downloaded and responses added

directly in the form.  Please save and name your document and

submit to Jenny Whitlock as an e-mail attachment (jwhitloc@mcg.edu),  Thank you

• Animal Use Protocol Form - (MS Word)
  Please review the most common problems and omissions in preparing the animal use protocol forms.  (Literature search summary example)
  
  
• Breeding Addendum - (MS Word).  A breeding addendum
  form must be submitted for each experimental protocol
  and sent with the experimental protocol as an email attachment. 
  
  
• Tissue/Embryo Use Only - (MS Word)
  
  

• Amendment form (Add title and/or Funding Agency only)
• Amendment form (major/minor)
  
  

Ten tips for speeding up approval of your AUP application

Researchers are to inform the IACUC of changes in their approved AUP. It is the responsibility of the PI to submit changes to the IACUC. It is common practice to confer with the attending veterinarian for guidance as to whether it needs to be approved by the entire IACUC or whether a new AUP is required.  Amendments are defined in two categories “Major or Minor”.  

The Attending Veterinarian and the IACUC Chairman will approve a minor amendment administratively.

The following are examples of minor changes and may be approved by the attending veterinarian and IACUC Chair.

• A change in the personnel

• A small (<10%) increase in the number of animals to be used.

•  A minor change in technique that does not change the level of pain

The entire IACUC Committee at the next scheduled convened meeting will review a major amendment. 

The following are examples of major changes that are to be presented to the entire IACUC. If several significant changes occur, it may warrant submission of a new AUP. 

• A change in the overall aim or objective of the study, which supports the need to perform the animal work.
• A change, which may involve an increase in the level of pain, distress, and/or discomfort so as to categorize it in a different USDA category.
• A change from non-surgery to surgery; from minor to major surgery; from non-survival to survival surgery, or from single to multiple survival surgery.
• A large (>10%) increase in the number of animals to be used.

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