Projects involving use of live vertebrate animals for research, teaching, training, wildlife studies, experimentation, agricultural studies, biological testing, preparation of custom antibodies, and related purposes MUST have Institutional Animal Care & Use Committee (IACUC) approval regardless of funding source or lack of funding, before the project starts.
IACUC approval is required before animals can be purchased or housed. IACUC approval is not a guarantee that space for the animals in a UMass animal care facility is immediately available. Contact Animal Care Services to make the necessary arrangements.
UMass Amherst is registered as a research facility (#14-R-0036) with the United States Department of Agriculture and has an approved Animal Welfare Assurance (#A3551-01) on file with the NIH Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW).