The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee at Harvard Medical School and the affiliated institutions and schools is called the Standing Committee on Animals. All use of animals in teaching and research is restricted to specific uses and experimental procedures described in an Animal Experimentation Protocol (AEP) that is approved by the Faculty Standing Committee on Animals. All
use of animals at Harvard Medical School must be described in an application that is submitted to this committee approval process. Animals may not be purchased or housed at Harvard without protocol approval from the Standing Committee.

• HMA Standing Committee on Animals — At this site you can download forms for submission to the Standing Committee and begin your correspondence with them.
• USDA Categories of Pain — This information will assist your completion of your AEP. The AEP submission must contain information on the classification of pain to which the animals may be subjected during your research. This link provides the classification scheme used by the USDA and Harvard Medical School.