Institutional Biosafety Committee Transparency Survey
(brief background information on the study, posted on January 30th)


Preliminary Statistics on IBC Response to Public Access Requests
Last Updated: 2 September 2004

(Replies noted are not an indication of the quality of the response. A 'reply' simply indicates that the
IBC has contacted the Sunshine Project in response to the survey letter.)

IBCs receiving request: 390 (+1)*
Replies received: 276 (70.7%)
Failed to reply: 115 (29.3%)

*One IBC, which was not surveyed, replied anyway. The reply will be used;
but not incorporated into calculations of (non)reply rates.

Responses will continue to be accepted and, indeed, are required by the NIH Guidelines.
Late arriving replies will be noted as such in the final report.

Quote of the Month for the IBC Transparency Survey

"A country that hides something is a country that is afraid
of getting caught, and that was part of our calculation."

- George W. Bush, 13 April 2004

FULL LIST OF IBCs SURVEYED, RESPONSE STATUS, COMPLAINTS LODGED
(key to case numbers below)

IBC
REPLY RECEIVED?
MINUTES PROVIDED?
COMPLAINT FILED or PENDING?
70.7% (276)
58.7% (229)
10.8% (42)
Abbott Bioresearch Center
NO
-
  
Abbott Laboratories (IL)
NO
-
  
Abgenix, Inc.
NO
-
  
Alabama A&M
YES
YES
  
Albany Medical College
NO
-
  
Albany Regional Cancer Center
NO
-
  
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
YES (late)
YES
  
Alpha Vax, Inc.
YES (late)
YES
  
American Type Culture Collection
YES (late)
YES
  
Amgen, Inc.
NO
-
  
Androscoggin Cardiology Associates
NO
-
  
Arizona Heart Institute
YES (late)
YES (case #1)
  
Arizona State University
YES
YES (case #3)
  
Asociaci—n Civil Impacta Salud y Educaci—n (Peru)
YES (late)
YES (case #1)
  
Auburn University
YES
YES
  
Ball State University
YES
YES
  
BallFloraPlant (Arroyo Grande, AZ)
YES
NO (case #2)
  
BASF Plant Science Corp (RTP, NC)
NO
-
  
BASF Plant Sciences (ExSeed Research) (Ames, IA)
NO
-
  
Battelle Memorial Institute (Columbus)
YES (late)
NO
pending
Baylor College of Medicine
YES
YES
  
Beth Israel Medical Center
NO
NO
  
Blue Sky Biotech
YES
YES
  
Boston Biomedical Research Institute
NO
-
  
Boston University Medical Center
YES (late)
YES
  
Bowling Green State University
YES
YES
  
Brandeis University
YES
YES
  
Brigham Young University
NO
-
  
Brown University
YES
YES
  
Buck Institute for Age Research
NO
-
  
Bucknell University
NO
-
  
Calgene LLC (Davis, CA)
YES (late)
NO (case #3)
PENDING
California Institute of Technology
YES
YES
  
California State University, Long Beach
NO
-
  
Cancer Care Northwest
NO
-
  
Cancer Centers of Florida
NO
-
  
Cardiovascular Consultants of Oregon
NO
-
  
Cardiovascular Medical Group of Southern California
NO
-
  
Carnegie Mellon
YES
YES (case #3)
YES
Case Western Reserve University
YES (late)
YES
  
Cell Genesys, Inc.
NO
-
  
Center for Blood Research, Inc.
NO
-
  
Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute
YES (late)
YES
  
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
YES (late)
YES
  
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
YES (late)
YES
  
Childrens National Medical Center
YES
YES
  
Children's Research Institute
NO
-
  
Chiron (Emeryville, CA)
NO
-
  
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
NO
-
  
City of Hope
YES
YES
  
Clemson University
NO
-
  
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
NO
-
  
Colorado State University
YES
YES
  
Columbus Childrens Research Institute
YES
YES
  
Comprehensive Blood and Cancer Center (Bakersfield, CA)
YES (late)
YES (case #1)
  
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
NO
-
  
Corixa Corp.
NO
-
  
Cornell University
YES
YES (case #3)
YES
Cornell University Medical College
NO
-
  
CP Kelco
NO
-
  
CUNY - Queens College
NO
-
  
Curis, Inc
NO
-
  
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
YES
YES
  
Danforth Plant Science Center
YES
YES (case #3)
YES
Dartmouth College
YES
YES
  
DOD Department of Veterans Affairs
YES
NO
  
DOD Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
YES (late)
NO
  
DOD US Military HIV Research Program
YES
YES
  
DOD Walter Reed Army Institute & Navy Medical Research Center
NO
-
  
DOD Walter Reed Army Medical Center
YES (late)
YES
  
DOE Brookhaven National Laboratory
YES
YES
  
DOE Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Lab
YES (late)
YES
  
DOE Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
YES (late)
YES
  
DOE Lawrence Livermore National Lab
YES
YES
  
DOE Los Alamos National Laboratory
YES (late)
YES
  
DOE National Renewable Energy Laboratory
YES
NO
  
DOE Oak Ridge National Laboratory
YES (late)
YES
  
DOE Sandia National Lab
YES
YES
  
Drexel University College of Medicine
NO
-
  
Duke University Medical Center
YES (late)
NO (case #3)
pending
DuPont Central Research and Development
NO
-
  
Duquesne University
YES
YES (late)
YES
East Carolina University
YES
YES
  
East Tennessee State University
NO
-
  
Eastern Virginia Medical School
YES (late)
YES
  
ECI Biotech
YES
NO (case #3)
  
Eli Lilly Research Laboratories
NO
-
  
Embrex, Inc.
NO
-
  
Emory University School of Medicine
YES (late)
YES (case #3)
pending
EntreMed, Inc.
NO
-
  
Erskine College
YES
YES
  
Evanston Northwest Healthcare
NO
-
  
Fenway Community Health (Boston)
YES
YES
  
Finch University of Health Sciences
YES
NO (case #4)
  
Florida Atlantic University
YES (late)
YES
  
Florida Hospital Cancer Institute (formerly Walt Disney Memorial)
YES
YES (case #1)
  
Florida State University
YES
YES
  
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
YES
YES
  
Genelabs Technologies Inc.
NO
-
  
Genencor, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA)
NO
-
  
Genencor, Inc. (Rochester, NY)
NO
-
  
GenPath Pharmaceuticals Inc.
NO
-
  
Genzyme Corporation
NO
-
  
Genzyme Corporation (Allston, Ma)
NO
-
  
George Washington University Medical Center
YES
YES
  
Georgetown University Medical Center
YES (late)
YES
  
Georgia Institute of Technology
YES
YES (late)
 
GPC Biotech, Inc.
NO
-
  
Hackensack University Medical Center
NO
-
  
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
YES
YES
  
Harvard Medical School
YES
YES
  
Hawaii Biotech Inc
YES
YES
  
HHS Centers for Disease Control / NCID
NO
-
  
HHS National Cancer Institute - Frederick
YES
YES
  
HHS Rocky Mountain Labs
YES (late)
YES
  
Highlands Oncology Group
NO
-
  
Hoag Hospital (Cancer Center)
YES
YES (case #1)
  
Hope Heart Institute
NO
-
  
House Ear Institute
NO
-
  
Hunter College (CUNY)
NO
-
  
Illinois State University
YES (late)
YES
  
Immunogen, Inc.
YES
YES
  
Indiana State University
NO
-
  
Indiana University - Bloomington
YES (late)
YES
YES
Indiana Univ./Purdue Univ. - Indy
YES (late)
YES
YES
Intermountain Health Care
YES
NO (case #5)
  
Introgen Therapeutics, Inc.
YES
YES
  
Iowa Methodist Medical Center
NO
-
  
Iowa State University
YES (late)
YES (case #3)
YES
Ithaca College
NO
-
  
Jackson Laboratory
YES
YES
  
Jacksonville Heart Center
YES
YES (case #1)
  
Johns Hopkins Institutions
YES (late)
YES (case #3)
pending
Johnson & Johnson (former R.W. Johnson, Spring House PA)
YES
NO (case #5)
  
Kansas State University
YES
YES
  
La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology
NO
-
  
Lahey Clinic (MA)
NO
-
  
Lenox Hill Hospital
NO
-
  
Life Technologies, Inc.
NO
-
  
Lifebridge Health (Sinai Hospital of Baltimore)
YES
NO (case #5)
  
Lifespan (Rhode Island)
YES
YES
  
Loma Linda University
NO
-
  
Maine Medical Center
YES
YES
  
Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, MA)
NO
-
  
Marquette University
YES
NO (case #5)
  
Marshall University
YES
YES
  
Mary Crowley Medical Research Center
NO
-
  
Maryland Hematology/Oncology Associates
NO
-
  
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
YES
YES
  
McLaughlin Research Institute
NO
-
  
Medical and Surgical Specialists, LLC
YES (late)
YES (case #1)
 
Medical College of Georgia
YES
YES (case #3)
YES
Medical College of Ohio
YES
YES
  
Medical College of Wisconsin
YES
NO
YES
Medical University of South Carolina
YES
YES
  
MedImmune, Inc.
YES
NO (case #4)
  
MedStar Research Institute
NO
-
  
Megan Health Inc. (aka Avant Immunotherapeutics)
YES
YES (case #3)
  
Meharry Medical College
NO
-
  
Melanoma Center of St. Louis
NO
-
  
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
NO
-
  
Mendel Biotechnology, Inc
YES
YES
  
Miami University
YES
NO
  
Microbia Inc.
YES (late)
YES (case #3)
pending
Millenium Pharmaceuticals
YES
YES
  
Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation
YES
YES (case #1)
  
Mirus Corporation
NO
-
  
Mississippi State University
YES
NO
  
Monell Chemical Senses Center
YES
YES
  
Monsanto Company (Middleton, WI)
YES
(case #3)
Monsanto Company (Mystic, CT)
YES (late)
YES
Monsanto Company (San Diego, CA)
NO
(case #3)
Monsanto Company (St. Louis, MO)
YES (late)
YES (case #3)
pending
Montana State University
YES
YES
  
Mt. Sinai Medical Center
YES
NO
YES
New England Biolabs
YES
YES
  
New York Blood Center
NO
-
  
New York Medical College
NO
-
  
New York University School of Medicine
NO
-
  
North Carolina A&T State University
YES
YES (case #3)
  
North Carolina State University
YES (late)
NO (case #3)
  
North Dakota State University
YES (late)
YES
  
North Memorial Health Care (MN)
YES
YES (case #1)
  
North Shore - Long Island Jewish Health System
YES
YES
  
Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
YES (late)
YES
  
Northeastern University
NO
-
  
Northern Arizona University
YES
YES (case #3)
  
Northern Illinois University
NO
-
  
Northwestern University
YES
YES (case #3)
  
NovaFlora Inc.
NO
-
  
Ohio State University
YES (late)
YES
  
Ohio University
YES
YES
  
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
NO
-
  
Oklahoma State University
YES (late)
YES
  
Old Dominion University
YES
YES
  
Omnigene Bioproducts Inc.
YES
YES
  
Oncology Specialists, S.C.
NO
-
  
Oregon Health Sciences University
YES (late)
NO (case #3)
YES
Oregon State University
YES
YES
  
Origen Therapeutics
YES
YES
  
OSI Pharmaceuticals
NO
-
  
Pennsylvania State College of Medicine / Hershey Medical Center
YES (late)
YES
Pennsylvania State University
YES (late)
YES
  
Pfizer Discovery Technology Center (Cambridge, MA)
YES
YES
  
Pfizer Global Manufacturing (Terre Haute)
NO
-
pending
Pharmacia & Upjohn (Kalamazoo, MI)
NO
-
  
Princeton University
YES
YES
YES
ProMedica Health System
YES
YES
  
Promega Corp.
NO
-
  
Providence Portland Medical Center
YES
YES
  
Purdue University
YES
YES
  
PureTech Ventures LLC
NO
-
  
Research Institute for Children (LA)
YES (late)
YES
  
Rice University
YES
YES (case #5)
  
Rider University
YES
NO (case #4)
  
Rockefeller University
YES (late)
YES
YES
Roswell Park Cancer Center
NO
-
  
Rush University Medical Center
YES
YES
  
Rutgers University
YES
YES
  
Saint Louis University
YES
YES
  
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
YES (late)
NO
YES
Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation
NO
-
  
San Diego State University
YES (late)
YES
 
Sarah Cannon Cancer Center
YES (late)
YES (case #1)
  
Sarasota Memorial Health Care
YES
YES (case #1)
  
Schering-Plough Labs (Union, NJ)
NO
-
  
Scott & White
YES
YES (case #1)
  
Scripps Clinic
NO
-
  
Scripps Research Institute
YES (late)
YES
  
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute
YES
YES
  
Serono
YES
YES
YES
Shionogi BioResearch Corp.
NO
-
  
Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center
YES (late)
YES
  
Southern Illinois University
YES
YES (case #3)
YES
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
YES
NO
  
Southern Research Institute (Frederick, MD)
YES (late)
YES
  
Southern Research Inst. (Birmingham, AL)
YES (late)
NO (case #3)
pending
Southwest Fdtn. for Biomedical Research
YES (late)
NO (case #3)
YES
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
YES
YES (case #5)
  
St. Elizabeth's Medical Center
YES
YES
  
St. John's University
YES
NO (case #3)
  
St. Joseph's Hospital / Northside Hospital (Atlanta)
YES (late)
YES
  
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
YES (late)
YES
Stanford University
YES
YES
  
Staten Island Urological Research, PC
NO
-
  
Stowers Institute
YES
YES
  
SUNY - Albany
YES
NO
  
SUNY - Binghamton
YES
YES
  
SUNY - Buffalo
NO
-
  
SUNY - Plattsburgh
NO
-
  
SUNY - Stony Brook
YES (late)
YES (case #3)
YES
SUNY - The Research Foundation (Brooklyn)
NO
-
  
Tampa Bay Research Institute (formerly Showa)
YES
YES
  
Temple University
YES (late)
YES
  
Texas A&M University
YES
YES
  
Texas Tech University
YES (late)
YES
  
Texas Woman's University
YES
YES (case #5)
  
The Cancer Center at GBMC Healthcare
NO
-
  
The Heart Group, P.C.
YES (late)
YES (case #1)
  
The Institute for Genomic Research
YES (late)
YES (case #3)
YES
The Saban Research Institute (Childrens Hospital Los Angeles)
YES
YES
  
The Wistar Institute
YES (late)
YES
 
Third Wave Technologies
YES
NO (case #4)
  
Thomas Jefferson University
YES (late)
YES
  
Torrey Pines Institute
YES
YES
  
Towson University
YES
YES (case #5)
  
Tufts University
YES (late)
YES
  
Tulane University Medical Center
YES (late)
NO
YES
Tyler Cancer Center (TX)
YES (late)
YES (case #1)
  
United Vaccines
YES (late)
NO (case #5)
 
University Medical Center of Southern Nevada
YES
YES (case #5)
  
University of Alabama Birmingham
YES
YES
  
University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
YES
YES
  
University of Arizona
YES
YES
  
University of Arkansas
YES
YES (case #3)
YES
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
YES
YES
  
University of California Berkeley
YES (late)
YES
  
University of California Davis
YES
YES
  
University of California Irvine
YES
YES
  
University of California Los Angeles
YES
YES
  
University of California Riverside
YES
YES
  
University of California San Diego
YES
YES
  
University of California San Francisco
YES
YES
  
University of California Santa Barbara
YES (late)
YES
  
University of California Santa Cruz
YES
YES (case #3)
  
University of Chicago
YES
YES
  
University of Cincinnati
YES
YES
  
University of Colorado Boulder
YES
YES
  
University of Colorado Colorado Springs
YES
YES
  
University of Colorado HSC
NO
-
  
University of Connecticut Health Center
YES
YES
  
University of Connecticut Storrs
YES
YES
  
University of Delaware
YES
YES
YES
University of Denver
YES
NO
  
University of Florida
YES
YES
  
University of Georgia
YES (late)
YES
  
University of Hawaii Manoa
YES
YES (case #3)
  
University of Idaho
YES
YES
  
University of Illinois Chicago
YES
YES
  
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
YES
YES
  
University of Iowa
YES (late)
YES
  
University of Kansas Lawrence
YES
YES (case #5)
  
University of Kansas Medical Center
YES (late)
NO
  
University of Kentucky
YES
YES
  
University of Louisville
YES (late)
YES
  
University of Maine
YES
NO (case #5)
  
University of Maryland Baltimore
YES (late)
YES
  
University of Maryland College Park
YES
YES
  
University of Massachusetts Amherst
YES
YES
  
University of Massachusetts Boston
NO
-
  
University of Massachusetts Medical School
YES (late)
YES
  
University of Massachusetts Worcester
NO
-
  
University of Miami School of Medicine
NO
-
  
University of Michigan
YES (late)
YES
  
University of Minnesota
YES (late)
YES
  
University of Mississippi
YES (late)
NO
  
University of Mississippi Medical Center
YES
YES
  
University of Missouri Columbia
YES
YES
  
University of Missouri Rolla
NO
-
  
University of Nebraska Lincoln
NO
-
  
University of Nebraska Medical Center / Omaha
YES (late)
NO
YES
University of Nevada Reno
YES
YES
  
University of New Hampshire
YES
YES
  
University of North Carolina Charlotte
YES
YES
  
University of North Carolina Greensboro
NO
-
  
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
YES
YES
  
University of North Texas
YES (late)
YES (case #5)
  
University of Notre Dame
YES
YES (case #3)
  
University of Oklahoma
YES
YES (case #3)
  
University of Oklahoma HSC
YES
YES
  
University of Pennsylvania
YES
YES
  
University of Pittsburgh
YES
YES (late)
YES
University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez
NO
-
  
University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus
NO
-
  
University of Rhode Island
NO
-
  
University of Rochester
YES
YES (late)
 
University of Scranton
NO
-
  
University of South Alabama College of Medicine
NO
-
  
University of South Carolina
YES (late)
YES (case #3)
pending
University of South Dakota
YES
YES
  
University of South Florida
YES
YES
  
University of Southern California
YES
YES
  
University of Sydney (Australia)
YES
NO (case #3)
YES
University of Tennessee Knoxville
YES
YES
  
University of Tennessee HSC Memphis
YES (late)
YES
  
University of Texas Austin
YES
YES
  
University of Texas Dallas
YES
YES (case #5)
  
University of Texas El Paso
YES
YES
  
University of Texas HSC Houston
YES (late)
YES
  
University of Texas HSC San Antonio
YES
YES (case #3)
pending
University of Texas HSC Tyler
YES
YES
  
University of Texas MD Anderson
YES
YES
  
University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston
YES
YES
YES
University of Texas Southwestern
YES
YES
YES
University of Tulsa
YES
NO (case #5)
  
University of Utah

YES
YES
  
University of Utah School of Medicine
NO
-
  
University of Vermont
YES (late)
YES
YES
University of Virginia
YES
YES
  
University of Washington
YES
YES (late)
 
University of Wisconsin Madison
YES
YES
pending
University of Wyoming
YES
YES
 
US Oncology (Dallas, TX)
YES
YES (case #1)
  
USDA ARS Midwest
YES
NO
  
USDA ARS North Atlantic (Wyndmoor, PA)
YES (late)
NO (case #4)
 
USDA Cropping Systems Research Lab
YES
NO
  
USDA National Veterinary Services Lab (Ames, IA)
YES (late)
NO (case #3)
  
USDA/DHS Plum Island Animal Disease Center
YES (late)
NO (case #3)
  
USDA SRRC (New Orleans, LA)
NO
-
  
Utah State University
YES (late)
YES (case #3)
YES
Vanderbilt University
YES (late)
YES
  
Vical
YES
YES (late)
YES
Virginia Commonwealth University
NO
-
  
Virginia Mason Research Center
YES (late)
YES
  
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
YES (late)
YES (case #3)
 
Wadsworth Center
YES
NO (case #5)
  
Wake Forest University
NO
-
  
Washington State University
YES
YES
  
Washington University
YES
NO
YES
Wayne State University
YES (late)
YES
  
Weis Center for Research
NO
-
  
Wellesley College
NO
-
  
West Virginia University
YES (late)
YES
  
Western Michigan University
NO
-
  
Western University of Health Sciences
YES
YES
  
Wilkes University
NO
-
  
William and Mary
YES
YES
  
William Beaumont Hospital, Oakland University
NO
-
  
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
NO
-
  
Wright State University
YES
YES
  
Yale University
YES (late)
YES
  

 

Case #1: Minutes reflect that rDNA work is limited to pharmaceutical trial(s). Minutes will not be evaluated.

Case #2: IBC listed by NIH; but institution reports that IBC does not / no longer exists.

Case #3: Records clarification necessary and/or incomplete or uncharacteristic records provided.

Case #4: No minutes provided and states all work exempt from IBC review or IBC reports to be voluntarily registered, refuses to provide minutes.

Case #5: IBC is reported as inactive and/or too recently formed to evaluate.