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NIH Implements "Just in time" Procedures for Animal Protocols As you read the announcement below regarding NIH Just-in-time Procedures- keep in mind the following points: 1. If you receive the grant ---- the funds will not be issued to you until the Animal Care and Facilities Committee approves your protocol. The regular schedule of protocol submission (protocols due the 10th of the month) should be followed. There are no emergency meetings. Good planning is essential. 2. As you plan you protocol, it is a good idea to contact the Office of Laboratory Animal Services to discuss the protocol. This step will be very useful to you. 3. If your proposed protocol will involve a hazard a standard operating procedure, please let the veterinarian know this as soon as possible. Writing the SOP for LAS, can be at times a very time consuming task. You will not be given the notice of approval for the protocol until the committee approves the protocol and the hazard standard operating procedure is completed and then approved by REHS. The announcement reads as follows: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced the amendment of the Public Health Service (PHS) Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals to allow "just-in-time" verification of Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) approval of animal use in PHS-funded research. This change was strongly endorsed by the Council on Government Relations(COGR) and other associations and universities in their comments to NIH. In the past, verification of animal committee approval of an animal research project had to be complete within 60 days of submission of an application to NIH and prior to peer review of the proposal. The change in policy announced today requires verification of approval "any time prior to award unless specifically required by a funding component." Effective September 1, 2002, the new policy permits universities to wait until after NIH-peer review is complete to begin the review process. NIH recognizes it obligation to give universities adequate notice, prior to an award, to conduct the review. The change affords universities greater flexibility in determining when to require investigators initiate the review process. NIH hopes the change will reduce some of the regulatory burden on universities by permitting the applicants and The animal committee to focus substantive review on proposals likely to be funded by NIH. |