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The NIH Office of Science Policy has announced that October 2015 is National Biosafety Stewardship Month – see the attached letter from NIH Associate Director for Science Policy Carrie Wolinetz. During the month of October, institutions are encouraged to focus on sustaining and enhancing a culture of safety and responsibility in life science research laboratories. UCLA researchers are strongly encouraged … Read More

The UCLA Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) would like to announce the transition of Human Gene Transfer (HGT) reviews to Western IRB’s Institutional Biosafety Committee Services (IBCS). WIRB will provide primary review of New, Renewed, and Amended HGT submissions to the IBC. Review will include a risk assessment of materials and procedures as well as a review of documents, including Appendix … Read More

The Office Research Administration (ORA) will observe UCLA’s 2014-2015 Winter Holiday Closure. ORA will be closed beginning Wednesday, December 24, 2014 and will reopen on Monday, January 5, 2015. Please be advised that the Chancellor’s Animal Research Committee (ARC) and Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) will not conduct business during the closure. As such, ORA staff will not process ARC or … Read More

UCLA Investigators working with biohazardous materials are required to comply with the NIH Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant or Synthetic Nucleic Acids (NIH Guidelines). To ensure compliance, the UCLA Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC), in collaboration with the Office of Environment, Health & Safety (EH&S), has developed an online (~20 minute) training module which is required of all individuals who work … Read More

The NIH Director has announced the launch of National Biosafety Stewardship Month. During the month of September, NIH grantee institutions have been encouraged to reexamine current biosafety policies and procedures, conduct inventories of infectious agents and toxins in all laboratories, and evaluate biosafety training of investigators, laboratory staff, and IBC members. UCLA researchers are strongly encouraged to participate in National … Read More

NIH Announces the launch of “National Biosafety Stewardship Month” – Recent reports of lapses in biosafety practices involving Federal laboratories have served to remind us of the importance of constant vigilance over implementation of biosafety standards. These events potentially put individuals at risk, undermine public confidence in the research enterprise, and must be addressed to prevent their reoccurrence. Efforts to … Read More

The Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) website has moved and is now available at http://ora.research.ucla.edu/SafetyCommittee/IBC/Pages/index.aspx. Please bookmark this page for easy access. In the coming months, we plan to enhance the information located on our site. Meanwhile, please provide any comments or feedback to oibc@research.ucla.edu.

Please find attached the IBC Meeting Calendar for 2014. Meetings will be held on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of every month. Please note that all applications must go through a Pre-Committee Review. Responses to the Pre-Review comments must be received by 5:00 p.m. on the submission deadline in order for the application to be reviewed at the listed meeting. … Read More

On behalf of the Office of Research Administration (ORA) – Office of the Institutional Biosafety Committee (OIBC), we would like to welcome you to the OIBC Investigators listserv. As you may or may not already know, administrative support for the IBC has moved from the Office of Environment, Health & Safety (EH&S) to ORA. Going forward, you will still interact … Read More