The mission of the Comparative Medicine Group

The mission of the Comparative Medicine Group is to facilitate animal use in research and teaching, at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Kansas State University by providing high quality animal care in accordance with both federal and state regulations and Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care, or AAALAC, guidelines.

The Comparative Medicine Group, or CMG, is a centralized campuswide core research fee-for-service support unit under the Office of the Vice President for Research for the procurement, care and use of laboratory animal animals for research, testing and/or teaching purposes at K-State’s main campus. The CMG works closely with the University Research Compliance Office, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee and Institutional Biosafety Committee to insure that all animal use at K-State complies with all applicable public laws/regulations, National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service Policies and National Academy of Sciences National Research Council, Institute for Laboratory Animal Research guidelines for the humane and ethical use of live vertebrate animals.