Peer Review

All projects involving live animals require peer review for scientific merit as per Canadian Council on Animal Care (CCAC) policy before approval can be granted.

The Facility Animal Care Committee (FACC) is mandated to ensure evidence of scientific merit prior to the approval of every Animal Use Protocol.

In most cases, the funding agency performs this peer review before it grants funds to a project (such as CIHR, NSERC, NIH...). In cases where independent peer review has not been carried out by the granting agencies, the Faculties and Research Institutes have in place a mechanism that ensures that at least two independent experts, who do not collaborate with the protocol author(s) (at least one of whom is not a member of the ACC), review the objectives, hypotheses, methods and contributions of the project.

For McGill-based investigators requesting peer review for their project, please contact the person in your Faculty:

• Faculty of Medicine: Ms. dalia [dot] soliman [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Dalia Soliman)
• Faculty of Science: Associate Dean Victoria [dot] kaspi [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Victoria Kaspi) 
• Faculty of Dentistry: Associate Dean marc [dot] mckee [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Marc McKee)             
• Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences: Ms. lynn [dot] murphy1 [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Lynn Murphy)  or  Research [dot] macdonald [at] mcgill [dot] ca (General Inquiry )

 For hospital-based research institutes, please contact your Institute Director’s Office.