Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee

The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) is responsible for ensuring compliance with federal regulations, inspecting animal facilities and laboratories and overseeing training and educational programs. The overall role of the IACUC is to ensure the humane and sensitive care and use of animals.

Every institution that uses animals for federally funded laboratory research must have an IACUC. Each local IACUC reviews research protocols and conducts evaluations of the institution's animal care and use program, which includes the results of inspections of facilities that are required by law.