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The Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) has recently released a draft guidance document regarding the transfer of a previously IRB approved research project to a new IRB or new...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