Institutional Biosafety Committee

IBC Charter & meeting schedule

Committee Members:

COMMITTEE MEMBER, COMMITTEE POSITION

DEPARTMENT

Yubin Ge, Ph.D., Chair Oncology
Raghavendar Thipparthi, Ph.D., Vice-Chair Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology
Richard Pearson, Ph.D., Biosafety Officer Office of Environmental Health & Safety (OEHS)
Erin Katz D.V.M., Animal Expert, Reviewer Department of Lab Animal Resources (DLAR)
Michael Bradley D.V.M., D.A.C.L.A.M., Animal Expert, Reviewer Department of Lab Animal Resources (DLAR)
Sreenivasa Chinni, Ph.D., Reviewer Urology and Pathology
Phil LaDuke, Community Member Environmental Resources Management
Alan Colter, C.S.P., C.H.M.M., Community Member Veolia North America
Linda Ritter, M.S., Occupational Health & Safety Specialist Office of Environmental Health & Safety (OEHS)
Edward Golenberg, Ph.D., Plant Expert, Ad hoc Member Biological Sciences
Suganthini Krishnan Natesan, M.D., Reviewer Internal Medicine
Matthew Jackson, Ph.D., Reviewer Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology
Hossein Salimnia, Ph.D. D(ABMM), Reviewer Pathology
Ren Zhang, Ph.D., Reviewer Center for Molecular Medicine & Genetics
Jared Schrader, Ph.D., Reviewer Biological Sciences
Kelly Bosse, Ph.D. Reviewer Psychiatry
Wei-Ling Tsou, Ph.D. Reviewer Pharmacology

IBC contact information:

Richard Pearson, Biosafety Officer

5425 Woodward, Suite 300, Detroit, MI 48202
phone: 313-577-1200 · fax: 313-993-4079

IBC applications and written biosafety standard operating procedures (SOPs) must be submitted via e-Protocol by the first of each month (unless otherwise noted) for inclusion in the next scheduled IBC meeting.

IBC meetings are held from 1.30 - 4 PM on the dates indicated below. IBC meetings will be held using the Zoom platform. 

Please contact the WSU Biosafety Officer for meeting information: Tel: 313-993-7597 or e-mail: fz1981@wayne.edu.

IBC 2024 meeting schedule

Deadline for submitting application Meeting Date
*November 13, 2023 December 11, 2023
*January 8 January 29
February 1 February 26
March 1 March 25
April 1 April 29
May 1 May 20
June 1 June 24
July 1 July 22
August 1 August 26
September 1 September 23
October 1 October 28
*October 28 November 18
*November 25 December 16

* Note earlier submission deadlines and meeting dates due to holidays