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<b><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in;background:white">PROJECT OVERVIEW</span></b><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">The Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation (OVPRI)
is implementing a new </span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black;background:white">institutional animal care and use committee (IACUC) tool
to support animal research in <b><i>late summer 2022</i></b>. This initiative is part of the phased implementation of the </span><a href="https://research.uoregon.edu/manage/research-administration-portal" target="_blank"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#0563C1;background:white">Research
Administration Portal (RAP)</span></a><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black;background:white">.</span></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; border-width: 1pt; border-style: none; border-color: windowtext; padding: 0in;">The project timeline has been extended to a late summer 2022 go-live.</span></p>
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<li><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black">User testing<o:p> </o:p></span></li><ul>
<li><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black">User testing completed on January 28.<o:p> </o:p></span></li><li><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black">The project team reviewed the test results and feedback from users which resulted in some minor changes to the system.<o:p> </o:p></span></li></ul>
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<li><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black">Library of standard procedures<o:p> </o:p></span></li><ul>
<li><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black">The project team is working to consolidate a library of standard procedures that will be used in the new system.<o:p> </o:p></span></li></ul>
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<li><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black">Training and support<o:p> </o:p></span></li><ul>
<li><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black">In the coming months, Animal Welcome Services will be developing and building adequate support resources for the new system.<o:p> </o:p></span></li></ul>
<li><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black">Migration of protocol and personnel training records<o:p> </o:p></span></li><ul>
<li><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black">Prior to go-live of the new system, protocol and personnel training records will be migrated from eAPM to the new IACUC system.<o:p> </o:p></span></li><li><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black">Investigators and their teams will need to fully populate and validate protocols in the new system after go-live and prior to any protocol
amendments or modifications.<o:p> </o:p></span></li></ul>
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<li><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">If you have any questions or comments about this project or the changes the new IACUC module will introduce, please email rapinfo@uoregon.edu.</span><o:p> </o:p></li></ul>
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