About Facility 

Animal facility provides animal care, breeding and maintenance of experimental animals e.g. Rats, Mice for ongoing research projects of the institute. The facility works under the guidance of Institutional Animal Ethics Committee to ensure excellent animal care, human handling and treatment and in complete compliance with the Government of India guidelines. The facility has been registered (No. 76/1999/CPCSEA) for breeding of and experiments on animals under the Committee for the purpose of Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals (CPCSEA), Ministry of Environment & Forests (Animal Welfare Division), Government of India.

Institutional Animal Ethics Committee (IAEC)

Dr. S.K. Ray, Chairman, Formerly Director of Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Science
Justice S.K. Mishra, Bhubaneswar
Dr. R.C. Patra, Professor, Department of Veterinary Medicine, OUAT, Bhubaneswar
Dr.D.N.Mohanty, CPCSEA Nominee
Mr.Biswajit Lahiri,Non scientific Socially aware member
Dr.S. Devdas, Scientist, ILS, Bhubaneswar
Dr. A.R.Suryawanshi, Scientist, ILS, Bhubaneswar
Dr. Sarita Jena, Scientist, ILS,Member Secy.IAEC,ILS

Reconstitution of IAEC,ILS is done once in every 3 year or as & when required.

Facility 

Currently, the following animal strains are maintained. 

• Rats                 Wistar  Rat                                        Holding
• Mice                BALB/c, C57BL6,B6GFP,B6SJL    Holding and Breeding                                  

Animal use is regulated by the IAEC, as per Government of India guidelines where the committee examines the Form B, submitted by the faculty viz. protocol, number of animal species required, etc. before experiments begins. Usually user need to inform consultant veterinarian/ scientist in-charge about animal use plans, such as animal order and breeding experiments well in advance. Breeding is normally handled by Animal house facility to supply animals to the research group. 

Only authorized personnel were allowed to access animal facility to minimize risk of microbial contamination to housed animals. The detail record keeping is mandatory and is kept in animal facility. 

Veterinarian-Scientist In-charge 

Dr. Sarita Jena