Instructions for Adding Project Personnel to a Protocol

Every individual that is working with animals (or viable tissue) on any given protocol MUST be listed as project personnel on that protocol.

To add an individual or individuals to your protocol please fill out our new Amendment Form on our IACUC Forms page and submit it to the IACUC email address: iacuc@illinois.edu. As with all submissions to the IACUC, if the amendment request is being made by anyone other than the principle investigator listed on the protocol, the PI must be carbon copied on the email request.

On the amendment form, BE SURE TO indicate the new personnel's training and experience pertaining to the species to be used and the specific procedures to be performed. If the individual(s) you are adding to your project personnel do not have training and/or experience, please provide a description of the training they will receive and who will provide that training. Failure to include this training information will delay approval of your project personnel.

New individual(s) must also enroll in the Occupational Health and Safety Program and they need to complete the Online Training Module for Research Personnel (and pass the quiz).

Please remember that the new project personnel is not authorized to work with animals until all of the above steps have been completed AND you have received notification from the IACUC office that the individual(s) has/have been formally added to your protocol!