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Each Principal Investigator (PI)* is required to register his/her biological research program with VEHS-Biosafety by using the BioWISE web-to-database registry application. All biological research materials in active use or in storage, including biological toxins, should be included in the registry. In addition, the BioWISE registry should also include all funding sources, personnel and research locations, including CORE facilities that are used.

*PI is defined as a Vanderbilt faculty member to whom space is assigned for conducting research. Investigators such as graduate students, research fellows, and research assistant professors, who conduct their research using space assigned to another PI, must register their research as part of that PI’s BioWISE registry.

Useful Tips for Getting Started in BioWISE

Login to BioWISE at https://safetyapps.vanderbilt.edu/ with your VUNet ID and e-password, then click  the BioWISE link at the top of the page (Biosafety Web-based Inventory and Safety Evaluation).

How to...

• Create a new registry
• Use the BioWISE spreadsheet
• Modify an existing registry
• Contact us or report problems

• What is the review process? (under construction)
• When will the Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) review my registry?
• What are Risk Groups??  (See section II-A-1 of NIH Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant DNA Molecules.)