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If your institution has
never had an assurance,
don't worry about it when you apply. NIAID grants
management or program staff
will contact OLAW to
negotiate an assurance with your institution if you're likely to be
funded based on peer
review results, e.g., your percentile or priority score is
within NIAID's payline.
 For that process, OLAW will send your institution a packet that includes
a sample assurance and PHS policy
information. IACUC members
and other experts at your institution should collaborate to draft the
assurance, inserting your institution's animal policies and procedures
where appropriate. Follow the format shown at OLAW's Sample Animal Welfare
Assurance.
Your institution will designate an institutional
official for animal welfare, who signs the assurance and sends
it to OLAW using either of these methods:
- Email. Send the signed assurance to olawdoa@mail.nih.gov as a PDF attachment.
- Postal mail. Send the signed assurance to the following address:
Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare
RKL1, Suite 360, MSC 7982
6705 Rockledge Drive
Bethesda, MD 20892-7982 (Use this ZIP code for the U.S. Postal Service, including express mail.)
Bethesda, MD 20817 (Use this ZIP code for commercial carriers such as FedEx and UPS.)
Do not include attachments for the following documents: resumes of the veterinarian or IACUC members, description of the institutional occupational health and safety program, or description of the animal care and use training program.
OLAW will review your institution's assurance for compliance with
federal policies. If acceptable, OLAW signs it and your institution
is assured. If not, OLAW will prompt your institution for more information
until satisfied with the response. Your application is barred
from an award until an assurance is in place.
When reviewing your institution's animal
welfare assurance, OLAW will
evaluate several items, including veterinary care, personnel qualifications
and training, occupational health and safety, and animal facilities
and husbandry.
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