Special Cases Application Forms: Animal Ethics

• Biological Sciences - Observation of wildlife in the natural environment (doc 141 kb)

  The Biological Science Animal Ethics Committee have developed their own shortened version of the Application Form to use for studies which involve observation of wildlife in their natural environment.
  
  

• Application for In Vivo Production of Monoclonal Antibodies (doc 204 kb)

  This application can only be submitted with respect to projects where approval for production of monoclonal antibodies using invitro techniques has already been granted, and where these techniques have subsequently been proven to be unsuccessful.
   

• Application for Ministerial Approval to conduct scientific procedures involving Death As An Endpoint

The DAEP form can only be used after the AEC has approved an Application for scientific use of animals prepared on the standard form.
The DAEP form relates only to scientific procedures "where the death of the animal is a deliberate measure of the procedure and there will be no intervention to kill the animal humanely before death occurs in the course of the procedure".
Death as an endpoint procedures may only be carried out for the achievement of prescribed, highly beneficial outcomes, and only where the objective cannot be achieved by any other scientific means.
These procedures must be approved by the Minister for Agriculture, and any modifications to a previously approved DAEP project must also be submitted to the Minister for consideration

• AMREP AEC Applications
  

  The Alfred Medical Research and Education Precinct (AMREP) incorporates the Baker Research Institute, the Macfarlane Burnet Centre for Medical Research, Alfred Hospital, and the Monash University Central and Eastern Clinical School  (Alfred Hospital).
  Monash University staff from the Central and Eastern Clinical School who intend to use animals for research or teaching are required to submit their application to this Animal Ethics Committee using the on-line EthicsAppOrder.
  
  AEC Secretary Ph: 03 8532 1489
  
  
  AMREP Application Tips 2006 (doc 42kb)