The UAB has a Research Ethics Committee (CERec), with a regulation approved by the Governing Council on 29 September 2022, and charged with lending support to the scientific research performed at the UAB. CERec replaces the Ethical Commission on Animal and Human Experimentation (CEEAH), created by the Governing Council on October 20, 1994.
Evaluate animal experimentation procedures
Evaluate procedures that involve experiments or research human
And it trains and advises research staff on the ethical dimension of their work.
CERec organises sessions on the UAB campus to raise awareness of the ethical dimensions of research.
The offer of training activities is available on the CERec website.
Projects using experimental animals or human samples must be evaluated by CERec.
To request the certificate of the Ethics Committee of your project, please send the form indicating all the required information to the e-mail: cerec@uab.cat.
Information on how animals are being used for experiments and other scientific or teaching purposes is key to understanding both the benefits and the drawbacks and limitations of such use has led the Spanish Confederation of Scientific Societies (COSCE), which groups together over 70 scientific societies representing 40,000 Spanish scientists, to put forward the "COSCE Proposal".
The UAB supports and adheres to this agreement of transparency on the use of animals in scientific experiments, which claims that information must be realistic, both in the description of results and regarding the impact on animal welfare and the possible ethical considerations of this practice.
