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The Division of Research Congruency (DoRC) is responsible for ensuring that all animal activity proposed in a funding proposal has been approved by the IACUC and is covered in an active, approved IACUC protocol (i.e. protocol to proposal congruency).
The PHS Policy and the USDA animal welfare regulations require institutions to ensure that investigators have appropriately considered alternatives to procedures that can cause more than slight or momentary pain or distress in animals.
A congruency review is a side by side comparison of a proposal (grant, award, contract, subaward, etc.) to a protocol to ensure that all animal activity outlined in that proposal has been approved by the Yale University IACUC and is contained in an approved animal protocol.
The principal funding source for live vertebrate animal research at Yale is the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), primarily through the Public Health Service (PHS) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
We have streamlined our process for requesting a congruency review to make it easier for Yale investigators. A form is no longer needed to request a review. To...
Just-In-Time or JIT requests come from NIH when a proposal has an impact score of 40 or less. This JIT notification does not indicate that the proposal will be funded, only that NIH is requesting JIT documentation.
When applying for a 3 year renewal for an existing IACUC protocol, all active funding involving animal work that needs to be linked to this protocol must be listed in the funding section of the protocol renewal application.
When applying for a new IACUC protocol application, all active funding involving animal work that needs to be linked to the protocol must be listed in the funding section of the protocol application.
Protocol-Proposal Congruency
The IACUC is governed by applicable Federal and State regulations, including those of the Animal Welfare Act, Public Health Service, and the United States Department of Agriculture and is guided by the U.S. Government Principles for the Utilization and Care of Vertebrate Animals Used in Testing, Research and Training .