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The Center for Laboratory Animal Medicine and Care (CLAMC) is responsible for the health and well being of laboratory animals used for UTHealth's biomedical research programs.
- Animal Welfare Committee
The Animal Welfare Committee (AWC) is the Institutional...
- Reporting Animal Welfare Concerns
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- Occupational Health Program for Personnel With Animal Exposure
Enrollment in the occupational health program is available...
- Investigator Training
Faculty with approved animal use protocols must assure the...
- AAALAC Accreditation
AAALAC International is a private, nonprofit organization...
- Facility Inspections
Animal Facility Inspections. The IACUC (Animal Welfare...
- Animal Welfare Committee
Animal Care Operations aims to enhance animal welfare and animal well-being as we promote and support breakthroughs in biomedical research at UH. ACO provides professional veterinary medical, husbandry, and proposal review services.
The laboratory facilities include a 7 Tesla, state-of-the-art MRI scanner dedicated to animal studies with a fully equipped animal surgical suite, a research dedicated 3 Tesla whole body scanner, and an image processing laboratory with a high performance computing cluster and GPU processing.
Investigators in MD Anderson’s Houston campuses perform clinical and basic cancer research involving laboratory animals including improved cancer treatments and diagnostic procedures, chemotherapeutic and immunologic agents, surgical procedures, radiotherapy and combinations of multiple modalities.
The leadership of the University of Houston cares deeply about research animals and takes pride in not only meeting the federal standards, but exceeding the federal standards for animal care.
AAALAC International is a private, nonprofit organization that promotes the humane treatment of animals in science through voluntary accreditation and assessment programs. AAALAC stands for the “Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care”.
Animal Care Operations: Provides professional veterinary and husbandry services to support animals used in biomedical and behavioral research; Maintains standards for animals, facilities, equipment and procedures