Domestic institutions with an approved Domestic Animal Welfare Assurance are reminded that Annual Reports for the reporting period October 1, 2023, through September 30, 2024, are due to the NIH Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) by December 1, 2024 (NOT-OD-25-003).
The following information must be reported:
- Any change in the institution’s AAALAC International accreditation status;
- Any change in the institution’s animal care program and use as described in PHS Policy section IV.A.1.a-i.;
- Any change in the Institutional Official or the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) membership;
- Dates that the IACUC conducted its semiannual evaluations of the program and facilities; and
- Any minority view by an IACUC member.
Visit the OLAW Annual Reports website for instructions and to download the Annual Report form. Domestic institutions must download the updated Annual Report form and should email the completed, signed Annual Report form in PDF format to olawarp@mail.nih.gov by December 1, 2024.
Foreign Annual Reports are not due at this time. A notice with details regarding Foreign Annual Reports will be announced separately.
For those organizations who currently do not have an Animal Welfare Assurance, but would like to learn more about obtaining one, then we encourage you to listen to our NIH All About Grants podcast episode on the topic.
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