Institutional Biosafety Homepage

Welcome to the Arkansas State University Institutional Biosafety Committee homepage.The purpose of this site is to provide a simplified roadmap through the procedures required at Arkansas State for conducting research that utilizes recombinant DNA technology.The University has established a Biosafety Program to protect students, faculty, staff, and the public from potential adverse exposure to biological materials used in research and teaching activities at ASU, and to satisfy federal regulatory and containment requirements concerning the appropriate use of Biohazardous materials. The Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) has oversight responsibility for the program with specific responsibility for:

• Ensuring that it fulfills all administrative oversight, review, and reporting functions as described in the NIH Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant DNA Molecules

• Registering the IBC with the NIH Office of Biotechnology Activities

• Filing annual reports to update committee rosters and biosketches

• Meeting as needed and maintaining a permanent record of IBC meetings and activitiesAll protocols that include the use of biohazardous materials must be submitted to the IBC for its review via IRBNet.org (link with instructions on how to use the tool).

Please refer to the University's Governing Principles for Biosafety and to the Office of Research FAQs for additional information, or call the Office of Research at 870-972-3032.