CITI Training

Attention all UMBC investigators a notice from the CITI website (www.citiprogram.org) from today:

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On Monday, February 16, 2009 at approximately 6 AM EST, the CITI web site will taken offline for site upgrades. We expect the downtime to be approximately six hours. To prevent loss of data, please complete your work and logoff prior to this time.
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Please be aware of this if you plan to log onto CITI on the 16th.

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.

Copies of Training Certificates

Investigators who completed the UMBC IRB training on Blackboard can request a copy of their certificate from HARPO. We have electronic versions of certificates from January 1, 2005 through September 17, 2007). We also have copies of AALAS Animal Care and Use in Research and Education exam records for animal researchers who completed this training from February 1, 2006 through September 17, 2007).

After 09/17/2007, the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) web training program was put into place to satisfy the training requirement for UMBC researchers. Investigators may print copies of their own IRB or IACUC training certificates by logging into CITI (www.citiprogram.org), using your username and password, and clicking the "Print" link under the Completion Reports column in My Courses.

Please contact the HARPO staff at 5-2737 or HARPO@umbc.edu if you need additional assistance in retrieving a certificate copy.

Updated application forms and documents on the HARPO web site

Looking for the link to access all forms used for human and animal research? Click on these links (and add to your shortcuts) to get to the most up to date versions:

IRB - http://www.umbc.edu/research/Resources/irb_forms.htm

IACUC - http://www.umbc.edu/research/Resources/iacuc_forms.htm

Biosafety - http://www.umbc.edu/research/HARPO/Biosafety/Biosafetyforms.html

Changes to the HARPO web site

As announced by Elliot Hirshman, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Geoffrey Summers, Interim Vice President for Research on January 30, 2009, the web access to all UMBC research information has been redesigned. The link to the updated site is http://www.umbc.edu/research.

With the update of the UMBC Research site, access to all HARPO related web pages has changed as well. Please click on http://www.umbc.edu/research/HARPO/ to access pages for the IRB, IACUC, training as well as other research compliance information.