Topics/Themes

Course curriculum of training will cover areas of Basics of biology and husbandry practices of laboratory animals, Regulatory guidelines of CPCSEA/IAEC, Record keeping, Animal Welfare, Breeding of laboratory animals, Environmental enrichment, Animal feed and nutritional requirement, Experimental techniques viz. handling, sexing, injections/immunization, blood collection, anaesthesia, euthanasia etc., Surgical techniques, pre and post-operative care, Biosafety and occupational hazards, Diseases of laboratory animals, Genetic and health monitoring of animals etc., Biostatistics in animal research, animal model of different diseases, basic lab safety procedures, Regulatory guidelines of DBT/BMBL/CDC/WHO/NIH fundamentals of working safely with infectious agents in biosafety level labs-II/III labs, donning and doffing PPE, risk assessment and mitigation, biosecurity etc.