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ULAM, ACUO Announce Winter 2024 Holiday Hours

Several service areas within the Animal Care & Use Program, including the Animal Care & Use Office (ACUO) and the Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine (ULAM), will be closed or operating at limited capacity during the upcoming holiday season. Below is a list of operating schedules and plans for areas that may have a direct ...
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Email Overload? Protocol Maintenance Can Help!

We know that your time is valuable and acknowledge the high volume of emails you receive at an institution of our size. To help manage expectations (and your inbox!), we have put together the following quick guide on email communications from the Animal Care & Use Program. Generally speaking, most emails from our Program are ...
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Facilities Safety

U-M Research Safety Reminder: Reporting Incidents and Near Misses

Maintaining a strong research and academic safety culture is a central institutional value of the University of Michigan (U-M). To continually enhance this culture of safety, all members of the U-M research community – including faculty, staff, and students – are reminded of their responsibility to report any incidents and/or “near misses” that happen within ...

ULAM

Yvonne Cornejo, DVM, PhD, DACLAM, Joins ULAM Faculty

The Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine (ULAM) is pleased to welcome Yvonne Cornejo, DVM, PhD, DACLAM, as our newest Faculty Veterinarian. Dr. Cornejo comes to the University of Michigan (U-M) from Alta Sciences Preclinical in Sacramento, California, where she primarily worked with NHPs as a Clinical Veterinarian. She received her veterinary degree from Western University ...
Yvonne Rosales Cornejo, DVM, PhD, DACLAM

ULAM

Connect with Your ULAM Faculty Veterinarian this Fall

As part of the Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine’s (ULAM) efforts to provide a collaborative, partnership-based approach to animal care at the U-M, ULAM Faculty Veterinarians will be hosting several check-in meetings at locations across campus this November. In addition to discussing facility-specific needs, a variety of other topics will be covered, including: Time will ...

Drugs ULAM

Update on Nationwide IV Fluid Shortage

As you may be aware, Baxter IV Solutions, a main supplier of Michigan Medicine’s IV products, was heavily impacted by the recent hurricane in North Carolina. In the coming weeks, it is expected that large volume IV fluids/irrigation ranging from 250mL to 5000mL will be in short supply in human clinical patient settings nationwide. This ...
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eRAM

U-M Begins Planning for eResearch Platform Transition

eResearch, the University of Michigan’s platform for research administration, must be replaced by October 2031 due to the vendor discontinuing support for its software products. The systems impacted by this change include eResearch Regulatory Management (eRRM), eResearch Proposal Management (eRPM), M-Inform, and eResearch Animal Management (eRAM), the system used by the Animal Care & Use Program ...
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Facilities Policies Safety

Sharps Waste Disposal Extended to 18 Months

Earlier this year, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed a new law into legislation which extends the timeline for disposal of sharps containers. Previously, state law mandated that sharps containers must be shipped for disposal within 90 days of the Accumulation Start Date, regardless of whether the container had been fully utilized. State law now allows ...