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Introducing...The IRB Newsletter!

Hot off the press

Are you anticipating involvement in human subjects research at UMBC?  Check out our top tips in the attached newsletter (PDF), then let us know our audience by completing the poll below!

Posted: September 4, 2024, 11:31 AM

Attention Students: You Can Volunteer on UMBC's IRB, too!

Protecting the Rights of Human Participants in Research

The Institutional Review Board (IRB), the UMBC committee responsible for approving and monitoring research involving human subjects, seeks applications from graduate and undergraduate students...

Posted: August 12, 2024, 4:32 PM

Greetings from your IRB!

Get IRB-Ready for Fall 2024

Hello! I'm Tory Williams (PhD, Biology, UMBC 2013), UMBC's new Institutional Review Board Manager. Over my 16 years at UMBC, I've made connections with many faculty, staff and students through my...

Posted: August 12, 2024, 12:53 PM

Updates to ORPC forms and documents

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. These...

Posted: February 19, 2016, 1:52 PM

Updates to ORPC forms and documents

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. These...

Posted: December 17, 2015, 9:03 AM

New IRB Guidance on Focus Group Research

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...

Posted: January 9, 2015, 11:28 AM

Time to work on those IRB Certifications (RCR, HIPAA, etc.)

Lunch, coffee, and time for work on the CITI modules

You are invited! IRB and Preparation for CITI Training (Human Subjects, Responsible Conduct of Research) Did you notice that if you are going to use human or animal subjects, you must be...

Posted: September 28, 2012, 7:52 AM

Draft Guidance from the OHRP

The Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) has recently released a draft guidance document regarding the transfer of a previously IRB approved research project to a new IRB or new...

Posted: June 20, 2012, 2:45 PM

Rethinking the "Common Rule"

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,...

Posted: November 17, 2011, 10:58 PM