OSU has an animal care and use program that provides a humane and compliant environment for all animals involved in research, teaching and testing activities.  Any animal involvement must be approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC).

The Colleges of Veterinary Medicine; Education, Health, and Aviation; and Engineering, Architecture, and Technology have achieved accreditation of their animal care programs by AAALAC International.  As part of this accreditation process, outside experts periodically review Animal Resources to ensure animals receive the highest quality of care.

 

(Why?  CVHS changed its name to CVM, The “Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care International” changed its name to be just “AAALAC International”.  Just because CVM is accredited, we can’t say that “OSU” meets or exceeds AAALAC’s standards.  Many parts of OSU do not.)

 

Animal research has improved and saved the lives of countless animals by producing vaccines to prevent distemper, rabies, infectious hepatitis, tetanus, parvovirus, and feline leukemia; technologies such as CT, MRI, and ultrasonography to help diagnose potentially deadly diseases; lifesaving emergency care for dogs and cats injured by cars; advanced surgical procedures to treat joint and ligament problems in dogs and cats, to transplant organs, and to implant pacemakers; and nutritional products to help puppies and kittens grow into healthy adult animals.

Animal based research has played a critical role in virtually every major medical advance of the last century – for both human and animal health.  Since 1979, every Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded, with one exception, was dependent on data from animal models.

From antibiotics to blood transfusions, dialysis to organ-transplantation, vaccinations to chemotherapy, bypass surgery to joint replacement, practically every present day protocol for the prevention, treatment, cure, and control of disease, pain, and suffering has at its core knowledge attained through research that included work with animals.

“Virtually every medical achievement of the last century has depended directly or indirectly on research with animals”
—U.S. Public Health Service