The intent of these forms is to ensure compliance with NIH/CDC guidelines for research lab biosafety. This form ensures that you:
- understand potential biohazards involved in your research,
- have designed experiments to minimize such hazards, and
- have communicated these potential hazards and protective measures to anyone involved with research or lab maintenance.
In some cases, it may be appropriate to combine more than one organism/experiment onto one form.
Depending on your type of research, there may be additional paper forms and documentation to submit, or requests for additional information from the IBC.
The forms have been designed to ease the registration process for the most common types of experiments performed at Vassar. If your experiment does not conform well to these forms, or involves the use of human subjects or human tissues or samples, please contact the IBC Chair directly.
Recombinant DNA registration form
Microorganism registration form