Current Trends in Institutional Biosafety Committee Practices

Abstract The NIH Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant DNA Molecules (Guidelines) require institutions that receive NIH funding for recombinant DNA (rDNA) research to establish an institutional biosafety committee (IBC) to review and approve rDNA experiments, and to ensure that rDNA research is conducted according to the Guidelines. Three national surveys of IBCs registered with the N…