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Don’t Delay, Set Up Your U-M DropBox Account Today!

If you have not yet done so, please create a U-M DropBox Account as soon as possible to ensure that you retain access to select documents shared by the Animal Care & Use (ACU) Program and the Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine (ULAM). Coinciding with the entire University’s migration of cloud storage from U-M Box ...
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Facilities Safety

Collaborating to Build A Safer, More Secure Animal Care & Use Community

As your partners in conducting responsible research to benefit both human and animal health, members of the Animal Care & Use Program and, by extension, our collaborators across campus, place the utmost importance on the safety and security of our U-M research community. To this end, we would like to draw your attention to two ...
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QA

Looking for High Compliance Confidence? The QA Team Can Help!

The Quality Assurance Team (QA)in the Animal Care & Use Office is a resource designed to instill a feeling of high compliance confidence in your laboratory! Did you know? Contact the QA Team today and take advantage of the many services offered! A standard meeting includes: Additional services offered upon request include: Questions? Questions or ...
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IACUC Policies

Tools to Learn More About Noncompliance Reporting and Escalation Processes

The Policy on Investigating Noncompliance and Animal Welfare Concerns, which describes the process that the U-M Institutional Animal Care & Use Committee (IACUC) follows when investigating reports and allegations of noncompliance or welfare concerns relating to the care and/or use of vertebrate animals and/or cephalopods, recently underwent a full review. The policy has been updated ...
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ULAM

What Comes Next? Initial Insights from Community Review of ULAM’s Strategic Plan

Earlier this year, members of the U-M animal care and use community were invited to provide feedback on the Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine (ULAM)’s multi-year strategic plan. Feedback garnered from the survey will be used to help shape the future direction of ULAM’s strategic goals and operations in the areas of: The survey was open ...
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New OVPR Funding Program Aims to Support, Catalyze Research

The Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) has developed a new funding program that aims to catalyze research and spur innovation across the University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint campuses. The Research Catalyst and Innovation (RCI) Program features four new funding mechanisms that will total more than $1.5 million in research ...
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Predatory Journals: What Researchers Need to Know

By Sara M. Samuel, Informationist, Taubman Health Sciences Library Compared to more reputable scientific publications, fraudulent or predatory journals exist solely to profit from researchers’ desire to get their work published. These journals often use email solicitations to invite researchers to join the editorial board or submit their work. Publishing in, or joining the editorial ...
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ULAM ULAM Pathology Core

ULAM Technical Services Team Available to Support Your Research

The ULAM Technical Services Team recently completed a re-organization, re-structuring, and re-strategizing process in order to continue providing the same high-quality technical services the U-M research community has come to expect. A few areas where you can expect to see these changes: Visit the Technical Services webpage for more information, and to learn about the many ...
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ULAM

ULAM Relaunches Program for Rat Donation and Redistribution

As part of our long-standing commitment to the 3Rs principles of biomedical research, the Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine (ULAM) is pleased to announce the return of the Animal/Rodent Redistribution Program. If you have worked with rats at the University of Michigan in the past decade you have likely heard of this Program (formerly the ...
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ULAM

Obtaining Veterinary Care Signage

The “How to Obtain Veterinary Care” sign is posted outside each facility’s animal vivarium to provide information for research personnel needing to report animal health concerns. The sign has recently been updated and improved to more readily identify veterinary care team contacts throughout the day. During normal business hours, as defined by the sign (pictured ...
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AAALAC

U-M Receives Full AAALAC Accreditation

A Message from the Animal Care & Use Program Leadership Team We are pleased to announce that the University of Michigan has received full continued accreditation from AAALAC International. In the notification letter that we received on November 30, the AAALAC Council commended staff at all levels of our institution for the tremendous amount of ...
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Winner of Inaugural Excellence in Research Animal Care & Use Award Announced

The Animal Care & Use Program is pleased to announce that Hadrian Kinnear, a student in the Medical Scientist Training Program, is the recipient of the inaugural Excellence in Research Animal Care & Use Award. Established in 2019, the Award celebrates staff excellence within the research community in the categories of Excellence in Animal Welfare, ...
Hadrian Kinnear, 2019 Excellence in Research Animal Care & Use Award Winner