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Revised Interinstitutional Agreement from OLAW

PHS policy requires that institutions have an OLAW-approved Animal Welfare Assurance before performing any activities involving live vertebrate animals. One institution that receives PHS funds may...

Posted: March 30, 2012, 10:22 AM

Updates to IRB consent templates

To continue our outreach and providing the most up to date templates for our investigators to use, please click on the ORPC Consent Template page to download the most current versions....

Posted: March 7, 2012, 10:27 AM

Submission of applications for review

Please be sure to use the correct email address for submitting protocol applications for review. That way, we at ORPC can respond to your requests in a timely manner and forward your application...

Posted: January 31, 2012, 8:38 PM

Report on Human Subjects Protections

The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues has recommended changes to current practices to better protect research subjects and to improve its tracking of research programs...

Posted: December 15, 2011, 9:23 AM

Updated IRB forms and applications

Please use the most up to date forms and applications when submitting for IRB review and approval. Using older forms may delay the processing of your application (and causing minor headaches for...

Posted: December 9, 2011, 10:16 AM

2012 Edition of OHRP International Compilation

OHRP has released the 2012 edition of the International Compilation of Human Research Standards which lists over 1,000 laws, regulations, and guidelines on human subjects protections in over 100...

Posted: December 5, 2011, 12:15 PM

OLAW Position Statements regarding updated Guide

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...

Posted: December 2, 2011, 9:13 AM

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

UMBC Research Proves Valuable to Large Companies

One of UMBC’s top revenue-generating technologies has just been licensed for the third time, this time to GE Healthcare. This demonstrates that the university’s strong efforts to commercialize its...

Posted: September 29, 2011, 12:00 PM