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. Please contact us if you have any questions.

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 Office for Research Protections and Compliance staff!).

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

Updates to IRB protocol continuation forms

To help with the management of protocols approved via expedited or full board review, two documents are now available for use by investigators.

Click to download the Annual Continuation Report for Expedited Review protocols

Click to download the Annual Continuation Report for Full Board Review protocols

Details about the procedures involving these forms are found at http://www.umbc.edu/research/HARPO/IRB/IRBpostapproval.html

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.

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.

Updated application forms and documents on the HARPO web site

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

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

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.

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

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.

Student Research Within a Faculty Advisor’s Approved Protocol

Student researchers will, at times, develop ideas for research projects as part of a senior thesis, master’s project or doctoral dissertation. that involve using data collected on a faculty advisor’s IRB approved protocol. The IRB will allow this provided the level of risk does not change, no additional benefits are realized by participants, and the scope of the student’s research project does not significantly differ from the parent protocol.

Rather than burden a student researcher with completing a full application for review and approval, the IRB has developed a Thesis, Masters or Dissertation Research Notification form. This form will assist the IRB in monitoring if the planned activities of the project are already part of a previously IRB approved protocol and/or if there will be any modifications (to risks, consent processes, use of identifiers, etc.) during the course of the research project that will change the provisions of the approved protocol.

If you have a project that falls within this category, download this form (http://www.umbc.edu/irb/tmdr_application.doc) and follow the directions.

Contact HARPO at 5-2737 or HARPO@umbc.edu with any questions.

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