The IACUC has recently updated its guidance regarding the use of sentinel animals in rodent housing areas to assure that the colony remains free of specific pathogens. UMBC's Attending...
To continue our outreach and providing the most up to date templates for our investigators to use, please click on the ORPC Documents and Forms page to download the most current versions. Please...
We are pleased to announce a new member of our compliance group in the Office of Research Protections and Compliance. Toye Jenkins joined OPRC on May 19 as a compliance specialist. Toye comes...
The Institutional Review Board (IRB), the formally designated UMBC committee to approve, monitor, and review research involving humans is currently accepting applications from students to join....
The NIH has updated the Public Health Service (PHS) Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (Policy) as announced in Guide Notice NOT-OD-15-079 at...
As announced earlier this month by the Office of Sponsored Programs, NIH had released the updated Grants Policy Guidance (GPG) on March 31, 2015 to replace interim guidance as well as incorporate...
The Department of the Treasury (OFAC) has published regulations recently concerning the need to obtain a "general license" for academic exchanges between Iranian and US universities, as well as...
An opportunities from the Society for Research Administrators International! March 20, 2015 Johns Hopkins University Come join the SRA Chesapeake Chapter for its inaugural meeting....
As reported in The Cancer Letter (Jan 9, 2015), university officials ignored a graduate student's warning about possible research misconduct. For more information,...
The IRB is providing updated guidance on the use of focus groups in research studies, the types of review and wording for consent documents. For more information, see Focus Group Research on...