This page provides quick links to federal policies, guidelines and biosafety resources
NIH Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant or Synthetic Nucleic Acid Molecules
- The Major Actions under the NIH Guidelines
- Investigator Responsibilities under the NIH Guidelines
- Animal Experiments under the NIH Guidelines
- Animal Experiments covered under the NIH Guidelines
- NIH FAQ's on Incident reporting
- Toxin Experiments
- Dual Use Research of Concern (DURC)
- Gain of Function Research
- NIH Stem Cell Information Website
- Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories (BMBL 5th Ed.)
- Biosafety Resources and Tools
- Import Permit Program
- Select Agent Program
- Mandated by Congress, the Federal Select Agent Program (FSAP) regulates the possession, use, and transfer of biological select agents and toxins that have the potential to pose a severe threat to public, animal or plant health, or to animal or plant products.
- The program is managed jointly by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture).
- eFSAP Resource Center- Everything you need to gain access to and use the new electronic Federal Select Agent Program portal, eFSAP.
- Select Agents and Toxins List
- Cornell University Federal Select Agent Program is managed by EHS Biosafety
- Cornell University IBC Policy and Procedures on Use of Vaccinia Virus in Research Applications
- Vaccinia Vaccination Declination/Vaccine Acquisition Form
- IBC Meeting Minutes Policy
- IBC Redaction Policy
- IBC Incident Reporting Procedures
- BL2-P Findings on Requirement that all transgenic plant work or transgenic microbes or viruses associated with plants requires BL2-P containment in the greenhouse or growth chamber
- Cornell IBC Guidance on the use of Lentiviral-based Vectors