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A "one-stop" resource for information, compliance standards, and regulations surrounding research models, covering not only human subjects, but also animal models.

Table of Contents

1. Human Subjects Research Protections
2. Investigational New Drug and Device Exemption Process
3. The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
4. Biological Hazards and Select Agents
5. Radiological Hazards and Lasers
6. Controlled Substances: Maintaining Institutional Compliance
7. Export Controls and US Research Universities
8. Data Management and Research Integrity
9. Intellectual Property
10. Financial Conflicts of Interest in Research
11. Good Laboratory Practices (GLPs)
12. Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Oversight: A Confluence of Voluntary Self-Regulation and Shifting Policy Initiatives

About the Author

Mark Suckow received his DVM from the University of Wisconsin in 1987 and subsequently completed a post-doctoral residency in laboratory animal medicine at the University of Michigan in 1990. He spent 8 years as a clinical laboratory animal veterinarian at Purdue University and then 17 years at the University of Notre Dame where he served as Director of the Freimann Life Science Center and later as Associate Vice President for Research Compliance. Prior to coming to the University of Kentucky, he was Professor of Veterinary Population Medicine and Director, Research Animal Resources at the University of Minnesota. With an interest in cancer models, biomaterials models, and vaccines, Dr. Suckow has functioned as an independent and collaborative investigator and has published in refereed journals and has seven issued patents related to vaccine adjuvants and cancer vaccines. He has written or edited over 20 books on topics related to research and laboratory animal medicine. Further, he served as the 2006 President of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science and the 2011 President of the American Society of Laboratory Animal Practitioners; and currently he serves on the AVMA Council on Research and is a member of the Council on Accreditation of AAALAC, International.