Animal Welfare Regulations and Public Health Service Policy require institutions to ensure that all people caring for or using animals are qualified/trained to do so.
Investigators, technical personnel, trainees and visiting principal investigators who are involved in the oversight, or actual care and use of experimental animals must be qualified through training or experience to accomplish these tasks in a humane and scientifically acceptable manner. Faculty with approved animal use protocols must assure the Animal Welfare Committee (AWC) --- also known as the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) --- that personnel will be or are adequately trained. Training is provided through UTHSC-H’s Center for Laboratory Medicine Animal and Care.
