Research Involving Animals

The UBC Animal Care and Use Program (ACUP) is a university-wide program and covers all UBC persons who work with animals in research and teaching.

It comprises multiple components, which cover ethics approval, compliance, animal care and housing, veterinary care, facilities management, training, surgical and specialized technical procedures. 

To learn more about animal research numbers and oversight at UBC, visit the Animal Research website.

Key VPRI Support

 

Research Services for Animal Care

UBC Animal Care Services provides services in support of the UBC Animal Care and Use Program including research support, veterinary services, compliance, training, procurement, animal housing, technical services and administrative support

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Animal Care Regulatory Approvals

The Animal Care Committee is responsible for ensuring that all UBC animal researchers conform to the mandatory guidelines of the Canadian Council on Animal Care through the university’s animal ethics review process and post-approval monitoring of all studies as well as the facilities where these studies occur.

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First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s two main campuses are situated within the ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam people, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.

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Office of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation

Walter C. Koerner Library | Suite 580, 1958 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z2
Tel 604 822 1995
E-mail research.innovation@ubc.ca

UBC receives support for managing its research enterprise from the federal Research Support Fund.

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