To protect faculty, staff, students, and the public from potential hazards associated with the use of Biological Materials and organisms and to ensure the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign complies with laws and regulations on safe use of Biological Materials.
Purpose. To protect faculty, staff, students, and the public from potential hazards associated with the use of Biological Materials and organisms and to ensure the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign complies with laws and regulations on safe use of Biological Materials.
IBC Approval
An IBC project is valid for 5 years.
DRS will send reminders to review and update if no changes have been made for 12 months.
Major updates/amendments may require to be re-reviewed by the IBC however the approval date will not change.
Materials Requiring Registration
All work with materials requiring registration must be approved by the IBC prior to initiation.
The following materials require registration with the IBC:.
1) Recombinant or synthetic nucleic acid molecules (even work that is exempt from the NIH guidelines must be registered*);.
2) Transgenic animals (use or creation);.
3) Transgenic plants;.
4) Pathog.
Registration, Projects and Numbering
All materials, facilities and personnel are found at the registration level and must be assigned to an individual project, even if you only have one project.
Individual projects under that registration are submitted for review and receive approval dates.
Each PI will be assigned one IBC registration number that will not change.
Projects are identif.
Required Training
Required Training for work with Recombinant or synthetic nucleic acids
Review Process
Once a project is submitted for review, you will receive an email confirming receipt.
In most cases,* the project will be assigned to a panel of faculty reviewers who will review the project to verify your risk assessment for the proposed work.
Once submitted for review, the project will be locked.
The next step is the question and answer period wh.
Submission Deadlines/Meeting Schedule
The IBC meets once per month as per the following schedule.
Complete project information must be submitted by 5 p.m. on the submission deadline date before the meeting at which your project will be reviewed.
Tips For Completing/Managing Registrations
Provide enough detail to allow IBC reviewers to understand the risk elements in the context of the research so they can verify that the proposed safety measures are sufficient.
What does the Institutional Biosafety Committee do?
The Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) advises on matters relating to the safe handling, transport, use, and disposal of biological materials, including:
recombinant DNA and synthetic nucleic acid molecules on the Urbana campus.
The committee reports to the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation. What is animal biosafety & biosecurity?
The procedures and containment used for animal biosafety and biosecurity are useful in the maintenance of all animals that may naturally harbor or are experimentally infected with human and/or animal pathogens including:
many zoonotic infectious agents or biotoxins.
The Urbana-Champaign campus has facilities for ABL-1 and ABL-2 experiments. What is biosafety & why is it important?
Biosafety is a discipline that uses safe practices, administrative procedures, protective equipment, and facility design to eliminate or reduce exposure to biohazardous organisms, and their products, and is guided by two main principles:
containment and risk assessment. What is Biosafety Level 2 guide?
Biosafety Level 2 Guide This guide is designed for laboratories working with biological materials requiring biosafety level 2 (BL- 2) containment and practices.
The BL-2 guide is intended to be used alongside the Laboratory Safety Guide (LSG) and act as training tools in a comprehensive laboratory safety plan.
