What other relevant committees must also review human stem cell research?
If the projects involves the use of human subjects or individually identifiable private information or biological samples, you must obtain approval from the Institutional Review Board (IRB). http://research.ucsc.edu/compliance/irb_home.shtml Research involving non-human animales needs to be approved by the Chancellor’s Animal Research Committe (CARC) http://carc.ucsc.edu Research involving recombinant DNA or human, animal, or plant pathogens needs to be approved by the Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) http://ehs.ucsc.edu/. Stem cell research in general will require adherence to the Cal-OSHA Bloodborne Pathogen Standard (BBP). BBP compliance matters require notice only to UCSC Environmental Health & Safety.
