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Animal Subject Coding

Grant Applications and Cooperative Agreements: the SRGs review the Vertebrate Animal section (VAS) to verify that any proposed research involving vertebrate animal is scientifically appropriate. The results of this review are coded as follows:

• Code 10 – No Live vertebrate animals involved for competing application
• Code 30 – Vertebrate animals involved – no SRG concerns noted
• Code 44 – Animals involved – SRG concerns

If there are SRG concerns related to the VAS, these must be resolved prior to award.

Contract Proposals: the SRGs will evaluate the involvement of live vertebrate animals as part of the technical evaluation of proposals submitted to NIH. The results of the review of a contact proposal's Vertebrate Animal Section (VAS) may result in a rating of "unacceptable" requiring revision of the VAS prior to award, or as "acceptable", which would require no further discussion on this topic.

Sources: NIH Guide Notice NOT-OD-10-027 and NIH Guide Notice NOT-OD-10-049