Events & Meetings

Strengthening and Modernizing Biosafety Oversight: Region 5 Listening Session

NIH Videocast

https://videocast.nih.gov/watch/0d41368d-17db-11f1-9f14-124f0a52e769

Draft Agenda

Listening Session 5 Draft Agenda

Meeting Flyer

Listening Session 5 Flyer

Introductory Slides

Listening Session 5 Slides

Public Comments

NIH and its partners encourage any interested individual to sign up to provide oral comments during the listening session.  All comments offered at the listening session are welcome and will be considered, including topics covered at previous sessions. Feedback on the following topics is particularly encouraged.   

  • The utility of agent risk groups (RGs) as a starting point in determining appropriate containment for specific experiments 
  • Opportunities to improve IBC functions and advance transparency
  • Committee activities: Options for expedited reviews (e.g., chair/less than full committee, BSO) including situations or types of research, if any, where expedited reviews would be appropriate
  • Roles and responsibilities of institutions, IBCs, investigators, and NIH to strengthen compliance and transparency 
    • Requirements for membership (e.g., flexibility in required expertise, local members) 
    • Requirements for improved public access to meetings and minutes 
    • Requirements for reporting of incidents or violations to NIH (and the threshold for incident reporting) 
  • Ways to strengthen coordination between IBCs and other institutional review bodies (e.g., Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees) 

Registration


Registration for this event is now closed

Recent Events