The Office for Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) has released information about their adoption of the new edition of the Guide for Use of Laboratory Animals (8th Edition). OLAW requests public...
Interested in learning about human research regulations?
November 21, 2011 at 1:00 pm. Tune in to WAMU's Kojo Nnamdi Show for a discussion "Rethinking the 'Common Rule': The Ethics of Research with Human Subjects". The show features Jerry Menikoff,...
The comment period for the advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) on how current regulations for protecting human subjects has changed and will end, on October 26, 2011. See the September...
The Department of Health and Human Services has issued an updated final rule on conflict of interest to use in identifying, managing, and avoiding investigators’ financial conflicts of interest....
The Department of Health and Human Services’ (DHHS) Office of Human Research Protections (OHRP) published an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM), titled Human Subjects Protections:...
ORPC has updated the Exempt Category Example Chart to assist investigators in determining if their research fits into one or more of the exempt categories.
The IRB has issued updated guidance for class instructors on when research projects, designed in the classroom setting, will require review and approval. Please review the below for more information.
The IRB has recently updated its guidance for investigators on the protocol closure process. Please review http://www.umbc.edu/research/ORPC/IRBpostapproval.html#closure for more information.