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An Important Professional Development Opportunity
Investigation, Institutional Committees
and Innovation
Save the Dates
September 25 - 26, 2008
Waltham, MA
How can IACUCs, IRBs and IBCs fulfill their responsibilities while dealing with advances in technology and research practice?
Learn from the experts and your peers in 1½ days of presentations, case studies and hands-on exercises. Academic, industry and regulatory leaders will guide sessions on topics ranging from Emerging Issues in Imaging Technology to FDA Humanitarian Use, and from BSL 4 Facilities to The Changing Paradigm for Animal Research.
For the agenda, click here.
To register, click here.
Mark These Dates on Your Calendar
October 9, 2008 - Cambridge, MA
Each October, the MSMR offers a professional development workshop on Ethics & Animal Research. The 2008 session, sponsored by Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, is free to employees of MSMR institutional member organizations.
December 4, 2008 - Waltham, MA
In December, the MSMR presents Institutional Counterstrategies for Animal Activism III: Personal Protection for Biomedical Professionals. This 3rd annual Counterstrategies session will focus on evaluating and defining personal risk with respect to animal extremism, how to liaise with law enforcement, legal measures and limits to personal/property protection, and more. This unique professional development opportunity should not be missed.
March 5-6, 2009 - Tempe, Arizona
By popular demand, the MSMR has been asked to return to Tempe, Arizona, for another 3I's: Harmonization of IACUCs, IBCs and IRBs workshop. The 2008 Tempe workshop was the most highly attended MSMR professional development workshop in 12 years, and we are working hard with our cosponsor, the Southwest Association for Education in Biomedical Research (SWAEBR) to make the 2009 workshop an even bigger and better event. Stay tuned.
September 16-17, 2009 - Portland, OR
The MSMR will sponsor an ethics-oriented program of its 3I's: Harmonization of IACUCs, IBCs and IRBs, hosted by the Northwest Association for Biomedical Research. More information will be forthcoming about this timely session.
MSMR presents professional development workshops for the research community on such topics as:
- IACUC rights, roles and responsibilities
- Bereavement and sensitivity for laboratory animal professionals
- Crisis planning and communications
- Personal and institutional security
- Harmonization of IACUCs, IRBsand IBCs
We also offer in-house training to our member organizations
in public outreach, communication, team-building, employee awareness
and other topics. MSMR workshops are a combination of expert lecture
and symposium and hands-on case-method and role-play learning. Leading
experts in the field from government agencies, accrediting organizations,
private firms and member companies lead our workshops.
Employees of MSMR member organizations receive a tuition discount at
our workshops in New England. For many of our workshops and conferences, members of States United for Biomedical Research (SUBR) also receive member tuition discounts.
MSMR workshops are widely recognized as innovative, focusing on emerging
issues in the biomedical research community. Workshops are announced
in our members’ monthly electronic newsletter, MSMR
e-News,
and will be posted here about two months before the Workshop is scheduled.
Want to be recognized as a future Workshop sponsor? Write to Alan Dittrich.