Who should I contact about using hazardous substances, such as infectious agents or radioactive isotopes?

Investigators planning to use infectious agents (regardless of risk group), recombinant DNA (rDNA), or biotoxins, must register their use with MUSC’s Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC). For use of infectious agents, the NIH/CDC publication, Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories provides recommended biosafety standards for specific organisms. Experiments that propose to use rDNA, fall under the NIH Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant DNA Molecules (NIH Guidelines). For further information about the oversight provided by the Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) at 792-4148.  more