Institutional Biosafety Committee
The constitution of Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBSC) at Ahmedabad University has been approved on Jan 31, 2020.
| IBSC Composition | |
| Chairman | Vivek Tanavde, Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences |
| DBT Nominee | Sharmistha Majumdar, Associate Professor, IIT Gandhinagar |
| Member Secretary | Ratna Ghosal, Associate Professor, School of Arts and Sciences |
| Outside Expert | Dhiraj Bhatia, Assistant Professor, IIT Gandhinagar |
| Biosafety Officer | Dr Gayatri Raval, University Doctor, Office of Dean of Students |
| Internal Experts | Krishna Swamy, Associate Professor, School of Arts and Sciences Rama Ratnam, Professor and Dean, Graduate School and Research Souvik Sengupta, Associate Professor, School of Arts and Sciences |
Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBSC) is an internal regulatory committee created under the guidelines of Department of Biotechnology, Government of India. IBSC reviews all research activities involving biohazardous substances, and has overall responsibility for maintaining the biosafety guidelines within the University. Biohazardous substances includes, but are not limited to, recombinant DNA, RNAi, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), pathogens, human materials, and other potentially infectious material. Following the guidelines of IBSC, it is the duty of the primary investigator (PI) to apprise the IBSC about experiments involving biohazardous substances. The PI needs to obtain approval from IBSC before conducting similar experiments within the University premises.