Institutional Animal Care & Use Committee

Appointed by the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation

The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) is responsible for ensuring compliance with the Public Health Service Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (PHS Policy); the USDA Animal Welfare Act and Regulations (AWAR); the institutional Animal Welfare Assurance; the University Policy on Animal Care and Use; and all other applicable statutes and regulations pertaining to the use of live, vertebrate animals in research and teaching activities. All research protocols subject to oversight must be approved by the IACUC prior to initiation.

The IACUC shall comprise, at minimum, five members. Members are appointed by the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation (VCRI). At least one member must hold a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree. One member must be a scientist who has experience conducting research with animals. One member must be a non-scientist from a discipline that does not conduct animal research. One member must be unaffiliated with the university except for his/her appointment on the IACUC; this member must not be an immediate family member of anyone affiliated with the university. The attending veterinarian is an ex officio, voting member of the IACUC. The Director of Research Compliance is an ex officio, non-voting member. The VCRI shall appoint an IACUC Chair, and, at his/her discretion, a Vice Chair who serves in the Chair’s absence, from among the members who have served at least one year on the committee.

Nominations to the committee may be made from the deans of the colleges with activities overseen by the IACUC or from other individuals familiar with the committee’s roles and responsibilities. No more than two members of the IACUC may be from the same administrative unit (departmental level) of the university. 

The VCRI may, at his/her discretion, periodically make changes to the IACUC’s composition to meet the evolving research needs of the University upon the approval of the provost.

Jennifer Mortensen	Biological Sciences	2025
Kristian Forbes	Biological Sciences	2023
J.D. Willson, alternate	Biological Sciences	2025
Woodrow Shew	Physics	2025
Kyle Quinn	College of Engineering	2025
Jeff Wolchok	College of Engineering	2025
Narasimhan Rajaram, alternate	College of Engineering	2025
Nicholas Greene, Chair	Health, Human Performance, and Recreation	2025
Tyrone Washington, alternate	Health, Human Performance, and Recreation	2025
Samantha Robinson, Vice Chair	Mathematics, Nonscientist	2025
Ken Jensen	Community Member	Standing member
Kate Williams*	Attending Veterinarian	Standing member
Shatara Porchia-White**	Research Integrity and Compliance	Standing member
Robb Jones*	Alternate Attending Veterinarian	Standing member