Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC)

The UNH Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) has been created to develop policies and procedures to ensure the health and safety of all faculty, staff, students, patients, and visitors at UNH and to ensure all federal, state and local regulations are followed.

Visit the IBC Registration page to register biological work with the Biosafety Committee.

If you would like to attend an Institutional Biosafety Committee meeting, please contact the Office of Environmental Health and Safety at (603) 862-4041 for instructions.

Committee Members

• Dana Buckley, Environmental Health and Safety
• John Collins, Molecular, Cellular, and Biomedical Sciences
• Audrey Cline, Community member
• Vicki Jeffers, Molecular, Cellular, and Biomedical Sciences
• Kimberly Lemay, Community member
• Sherine Elsawa, Molecular, Cellular, and Biomedical Sciences (IBC Chair)
• Andy Glode,  Environmental Health & Safety
• Won Hyuk Suh, Biotechnology, UNH Manchester
• Carol Loring, Community member
• Linqing Li, Chemical Engineering
• Subhash Minocha, Biological Sciences
• Linnea Morley, Animal Resource Office
• Nathan Oldenhuis, Chemistry
• Laurie Westover, COLSA

Institutional Biosafety Committee Charter

The UNH Institutional Biosafety Committee meets every other month, on the third Thursday of the month, from 2:10 pm to 3:30 pm via Teams and in Spaulding Hall room 228. Contact the Biosafety and Security Officer Dana Buckley for meeting log in information.

IBC Registrations are completed in Cayuse.  First time Cayuse users should contact the Biosafety Office (Dana Buckley) for more information.

Registration are due at least 2 weeks prior to a scheduled meeting. IBC Committee Meeting dates and Protocol submission due dates for 2025 are as follows:

Past IBC Meeting Minutes

September 2025 Meeting Minutes

View Biological Safety Knowledge Base

The Knowledge Base contains forms, instruction and training material, minutes, policies, tools and other resources to support your research efforts by topic area.

IBC agendas and meeting minutes for prior years may be obtained by calling the Biological Safety/Security Officer at (603) 862-0197, or the Office of Environmental Health & Safety at (603) 862-4041.

Dana Buckley, Biological Safety Officer
Phone: (603) 862-0197
Email: dana.buckley@unh.edu