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Please see the below announcement from our colleagues at the NIH requesting your feedback on the draft report and proposed recommendations from the 21st Century Cures Act, Section 2034(d) workgroup. The report includes recommendations aimed at alleviating administrative burden on investigators who use animal subjects in their research activities. As a member of the regulated community, we encourage you to … Read More

The Office of Research Administration (ORA) has revised UCLA Policies 990 (Use of Animals in Research, Teaching, and Testing) and 992 (Use of Biohazardous Materials and Recombinant or Synthetic Nucleic Acid Molecules in Research and Teaching Activities) and has placed these policies on the UCLA Administrative Policy website for a 30-day public review and comment period. The most noteworthy changes … Read More

The Office Research Administration (ORA) will observe UCLA’s 2018-19 Winter Holiday Closure. ORA will be closed beginning Saturday, December 22, 2018 and will reopen on Wednesday, January 2, 2019. Please be advised that the Chancellor’s Animal Research Committee (ARC), Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC), and Medical Radiation Safety Committee (MRSC) / Radioactive Drug Research Committee (RDRC) will not conduct business during the … Read More

The ARC recently revised the Policy, Environmental Enrichment, primarily to clarify and update enrichment practices in use for mice and rats. You will recall that the ARC announced a 30-day comment period to invite feedback on the proposed changes; as no comments were received from the research community, the proposed Policy changes were implemented as previously described. The revised Policy is available at … Read More

Changes to the ARC Policy on Environmental Enrichment are proposed as described in this Word document: Environmental Enrichment (draft). DLAM advises that most of the mouse enrichment practices described in this document have, in fact, been in effect for some time; however, your attention is drawn to a significant change in the proposed enrichment for rats: All rats (socially-housed and … Read More