24 August 2009

Reminder - Next IACUC meetings for 2009

The UMBC IACUC meets four (4) times a year. This allows the committee time for sufficient review of new or renewal protocol applications. The next meetings are scheduled for April, 2009 and July, 2009. Therefore, animal research applications must be submitted to HARPO no later than February 15, 2009 for the April meeting and May 15, 2009 for the July meeting.

Application forms and instructions may be found at http://www.umbc.edu/iacuc/iacucforms.htm.

Reminder - IRB meeting dates for 2009 - 2010

The IRB meets every sixty (60) days during the academic year to review human subjects protocols. Full committee reviews of protocols are performed at each of the scheduled meetings; exempt and expedited review applications may be submitted at any time.

The meeting schedule for the 2009-10 academic year is as follows:

- October 05, 2009; Full Board Review applications due by September 07, 2009
- December 07, 2009; Full Board Review applications due by November 02, 2009
- February 01, 2010; Full Board Review applications due by January 04, 2010
- April 05, 2010; Full Board Review applications due by March 02, 2010
- June 07, 2010; Full Board Review applications due by May 03, 2010

Please visit the IRB's protocol development page for further information.

13 August 2009

Updated IACUC forms and applications

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

The direct link to this forms is: http://www.umbc.edu/research/Resources/iacuc_forms.htm.

As usual, contact the HARPO office at 5-2737 or HARPO@umbc.edu if there are any questions.

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 the HARPO staff!).

The direct link to this forms is: http://www.umbc.edu/research/Resources/irb_forms.htm.

As usual, contact the HARPO office at 5-2737 or HARPO@umbc.edu if there are any questions.

12 August 2009

A greener HARPO

In our effort to be "green", help our environment and to help with the timely review of your project, please be sure to review the submission requirements for sending in any IRB or IACUC protocols.

We ask that you electronically submit the protocol along with any accompanying documents to either irbsubmissions@umbc.edu (for human research applications) or iacucsubmissions@umbc.edu (for animal research applications).

Submission information and documents may be found at:

http://www.umbc.edu/research/Resources/irb_forms.htm
(IRB)
http://www.umbc.edu/research/Resources/iacuc_forms.htm (IACUC)

Please be sure to include the applicable pages with the signature of the investigators. We prefer this page be submitted electronically (a scanned version as a PDF document will do). If that's not possible, fax that page (and that page only) to the Human and Animal Protections Research Office at (410) 455-3868. Protocol applications will not be processed until this face page is received.