Campus IRB (Institutional Review Board) approval is required for projects working with humans or vertebrate animals.
UC Berkeley:
Human Subjects: http://cphs.berkeley.edu
Animal Subjects: http://www.acuc.berkeley.edu
UC DAVIS:
Human Subjects: http://www.connect.ucdavis.edu/home.cfm?id=OVC,1
Animal Subjects: http://ehs.ucdavis.edu/animal/protdown.cfm
UC San Francisco:
Human Subjects: http://research.ucsf.edu/chr/
Animal Subjects: http://iacuc.ucsf.edu/