14 March 2008

HARPO will be closed

The Human and Animal Research Protections Office will be closed during UMBC’s spring break, from Monday, March 17, 2008 through Tuesday, March 18, 2008, and will reopen on March 19, 2008.

Please call the Office telephone number at 410-455-2737 if you have any research compliance questions and follow the instructions on the recorded message.

11 March 2008

Up to date IRB forms

Application forms are the lifeblood of the IRB as they document procedures, actions and research methodology of the investigator's human participant use. HARPO uses these form to keep members of the IRB informed about the research but also to track what investigators will do. Every once in a while, we tweak these forms to make documentation of the research easier for the IRB to review and for us to put in our database. So, please use the most current forms when submitting applications or reports to the IRB. Using outdated forms may delay the processing of researcher’s requests. The complete list of IRB forms are found at http://www.umbc.edu/irb/irbforms.htm