{"id":1851,"date":"2024-11-12T20:17:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T20:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/dean-of-faculty\/faculty-development\/faculty-leaves-grants-and-funds\/iacuc\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T13:46:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T13:46:13","slug":"bio-comm","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/dean-of-faculty\/faculty-development\/faculty-leaves-grants-and-funds\/bio-comm\/","title":{"rendered":"Institutional Biosafety Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"

About the Committee<\/h2>\n

The role of the Trinity College Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) role is to ensure the protection of faculty, staff, and students at Trinity College, members of the community, and the environment from potentially harmful biological agents used in research on campus.<\/p>\n

The Trinity College IBC provides local review and oversight of nearly all forms of research utilizing recombinant or synthetic nucleic acid molecules in accordance with the National Institutes of Health’s Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant or Synthetic Nucleic Acid Molecules<\/em><\/a>. The NIH defines recombinant DNA as \u201c(1) molecules that a) are constructed by joining nucleic acid molecules and b) can replicate in a living cell, i.e. recombinant nucleic acids, or (2) nucleic acid molecules that are chemically or by other means synthesized or amplified, including those that are chemically or otherwise modified but can base pair with naturally occurring nucleic acid molecules, i.e. synthetic nucleic acids, or (3)molecules that result from the replication of those described in (1) or (2).\u201d (https:\/\/grants.nih.gov\/policy-and-compliance\/nihgps<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The Trinity College IBC also operates following the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Biosafety in Microbial and Biomedical Laboratories Guidelines<\/em><\/a> to provide local review of a variety of experimentation that involves biological materials (e.g., infectious agents) and other potentially hazardous agents (e.g., microorganisms, fungi, viruses, bloodborne pathogens, biological toxins, and carcinogens) including all human and non-human primate blood, body fluids, tissues, and\/or cell lines.<\/p>\n

Submitting a Protocol<\/h2>\n

All faculty, staff, students or other users of the facilities at Trinity College who are planning to do research falling into any of the aforementioned categories must comply with all federal, state, local and college regulations and policies. All protocols, in which any of this research will be used, regardless of the funding source, must be submitted to the IBC for review.<\/p>\n

Submit a new protocol by filling out the protocol form (forthcoming). Protocols are active for five years unless there are any changes to the protocol. If there are no changes, after five years, you will need to fill out a protocol renewal form.<\/p>\n