Biosafety Manual

The Biosafety Manual Biosafety Manual details key considerations for recognizing, evaluating, and mitigating hazards affiliated with biological materials.

Biosafety Manual

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Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC)

The Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) oversees the safe and compliant conduct of experiments involving recombinant/synthetic nucleic acids and biohazardous materials in research and academic settings.

IBC Homepage NIH Guidelines


Biosafety Training

EH&S provides a wide range of live and online biosafety training courses.

More Information Check Training Status

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Federal Select Agent Program (FSAP) &

Dual Use Research of Concern (DURC)

The Federal Select Agent Program oversees select agents and biological toxins that pose a threat to public, animal, or plant health. Dual use research of concern (DURC) comprises experiments involving a subset of select agents that may be directly misapplied to pose a significant threat to public health, agriculture, the environment or national security.

FSAP DURC


Biosafety/IBC Forms

Fillable biosafety and/or IBC forms are compiled in the linked resource.

Forms