The Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) is committed to promoting research and instructional activities by ensuring that all experiments using biological materials are conducted in full compliance with the current editions of NIH Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant or Synthetic Nucleic Acid Molecules (NIH Guidelines) issued by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories (BMBL) issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).