ICLAS Monitoring Center
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| ICLAS Monitoring Center | |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan |
| Director | Tatsuji Nomura |
| Website | http://www.ciea.or.jp/English/A4_monitoring.htm |
ICLAS Monitoring Center was established in Central Institute for Experimental Animals (CIEA) in 1979 and is the first and only center in the world for testing and verifying the quality of laboratory animals, under a direction of Dr. Tatsuji Nomura with a conduct of International Council for Laboratory Animal Science (ICLAS).
[edit] History
The Monitoring Center program came on the agenda in ICLAS early in the 1970’s and the goal was set to assist the scientific bodies in finding animals of the highest quality. In 1979 a workshop was organized in Japan under the auspices of ICLAS and the International Cancer Research Workshop (ICREW) with representatives from the governing board of ICLAS, members of the ICLAS working party, and a number of experts from throughout the world. At that time, the planning of an ICLAS Monitoring Center System and the preparation of an International Manual on Genetic Monitoring, which had been in development for some time, was progressing well. The final proposal was later approved by the Board as a realistic and well-founded scheme that would give the users of laboratory animals a far better program and would help re-establish confidence in the system. The first ICLAS Genetic Monitoring Center in the world was then established in 1980 at CIEA in Japan, by Dr. Tatsuji Nomura, Director of CIEA. This center had already served as an Asian Regional Coordinating Center in the ICLAS Reference Center project since 1979.
