Collaborative Research
All animal research conducted at or in any way sponsored by LBNL must be carried out under an approved Animal Use Protocol. When animal use takes place off site, LBNL must ensure that researchers provide documentation showing that the animals or tissues will be used appropriately and that the animal derived material or data received at LBNL were obtained under an animal use protocol approved by an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), analogous to the LBNL AWRC, covered by an Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare Assurance or other suitable ethical standards. The IACUC agreement form must be signed by the other institution's responsible party. There are several different types of collaborative research possible. A researcher may wish to conduct joint research with a colleague at a different institution. Or a researcher may wish to use tissues or data from a commercial laboratory. In some cases a researcher will be receiving archival or surplus tissues from an on- or off-site colleague. A fourth possibility is to ship live animals from LBNL to a colleague at another institution. If this last instance is the case, then please see the section on shipping animals below.
All these cases necessitate the approval of the LBNL Animal Welfare and Research Committee. A collaborative protocol will need to be created in HARP, with the collaborator's IACUC approved protocol or SOP and all relevant materials uploaded in electronic form into HARP. All relevant personnel must have accounts and profiles in HARP. Please complete all the information requested in this HARP Account Request Form by going into this link: this HARP Account Request Form for each person listed on the protocol, including the protocol lead investigator. Once this has been done, enter the HARP system and click on the blue button on the left side of the screen for creating a new protocol. On the first page you will be asked what kind of protocol you are creating. Check the appropriate buttons (either 6.0, 7.0, or 8.0) for your type of collaboration. You will then be led through a set of screens asking all relevant information and with a place to upload your collaborator's materials. The PLI then should submit this to the HARC office, where it will be reviewed and scheduled for the next monthly AWRC meeting, if no changes are requested.
You can contact our office by sending an email to [email protected] with any questions you may have.
