Showing posts with label OLAW. Show all posts
Showing posts with label OLAW. Show all posts

01 December 2011

Position Statements: OLAW Responds to Concerns Regarding Adoption of the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals: Eighth Edition

OLAW has released information about their adoption of the new edition of the Guide for Use of Laboratory Animals. OLAW requests public comment on various position statements they plan to use as guidance for institutions to use for animal care and use programs.

Please go to this site (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/olaw/2011positionstatement.htm) to view these statements and for links to submit comments.

15 January 2010

PRIM&R Webinar for animal users

Top Tips for IACUCs: Perspectives in Animal Care

Join Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R) for a Webinar – “Top Tips for IACUCs: Perspectives in Animal Care” – February 9, 2010, from 1:00 until 2:30 PM ET.

Program Agenda:
+ A review of top reportable issues to OLAW
+ An OLAW perspective on crisis preparation and management
+ Selection and training of new IACUC chairs and committee members
+ The fundamentals of program review and inspections

Presenters: Patricia A. Brown, VMD, MS, Diplomate ACLAM, Director of the Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Monte Matthews, BA, CPIA, Director of the Office of Veterinary Services & Animal Care Officer at the University of Oregon.

For more information, visit http://www.primr.org/Conferences.aspx?id=7887.

23 July 2009

Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare Topic Index

The Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) has created a Topic Index – a new online resource to OLAW Guidance by subject matter. Investigator can now browse and search OLAW responses to Frequently Asked Questions, Commentaries and Articles written by OLAW staff, plus Policy Notices published in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts.

Go to http://grants.nih.gov/grants/olaw/olaw_topic_index.htm for more information.

19 December 2008

Join OHRP's and OLAW's News Distribution Lists

The Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP)and the Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) invites all researchers to sign up for their news distribution lists. These act a primary source of news, regulatory changes and updates from the federal perspective.

Go to http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/olaw/references/list.htm to sign up for the OLAW LISTSERV or http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/news/distributionlist.html for the OHRP distribution list.