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TXBioBytes from Texas Biomed Episode 021 — Protecting Research Animals

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The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) is appointed in accordance with the Animal Welfare Act and the Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. But it’s more passion than legal obligation that guides this group.

The IACUC Committee at Texas Biomed makes extraordinary efforts to ensure the nonhuman primates that the more than 2,000 monkeys that live at the Southwest National Primate Research Center on our campus have the best care possible.

Not only people who work here, but lay people from the community as well help make important decisions about the research conducted on our campus involving the use of animals.

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