Institutional Animal Care Committee (IACC) – Dates

Important Dates for 2024/2025

The IACC meets on a monthly bases to review protocols for ethical merit, evaluate post-approval exchange with investigators, and advance the policies and Standard Operating Procedures surrounding the use of animals in researching and teaching throughout Memorial University programs and those of its affiliates.
Please note, submissions you wish to have reviewed at a scheduled meeting should be submitted at least 2 weeks prior to the meeting.

Training Registration

Hands-on and orientation sessions

Please contact Animal Care Services to register into training session: acs@mun.ca

CCAC online certification

Memorial has a self-registration link to the certification program through the D2L portal https://citl.mun.ca/learning/AnimalCareForm_699.php

Students can register and then log into Animal Care Online Training through D2L (https://online.mun.ca/) to complete the Core and Animals Held in Vivaria quizzes using training materials directly from the Canadian Council on Animal Care (CCAC) website https://www.ccac.ca/en/training/modules/core-stream/

Please note: the CCAC has recently restructured their program and dropped modules. We are still working to update our material to match the new content. Please ignore any quiz that does not match to the 3 current CCAC Core Modules and 7 Animals Held in Vivaria Modules.

Month Activity Submission Deadline Date of meeting
January ACC Meeting December 24, 2024 January 7, 2025
February ACC Meeting January 21, 2025 February 4, 2025
March ACC Meeting February 18, 2025 March 4, 2025
April ACC Meeting March 18, 2025 April 1, 2025
May ACC Meeting April 22, 2025 May 6, 2025
June ACC Meeting May 20, 2025 June 3, 2025
July ACC Meeting June 17, 2025 July 8, 2025
August ACC Meeting July 22, 2025 August 5, 2025
September ACC Meeting August 19, 2025 September 2, 2025
October ACC Meeting September 23, 2025 October 7, 2025
November ACC Meeting October 21, 2025 November 4, 2025
December ACC Meeting November 18, 2025 December 2, 2025