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Office Closure Dates for Holiday Break-12/22/22-1/2/23
Dec 13, 2022

Our office will be closed starting 12/22/22. We will return on 1/2/23.E-mail inboxes will be monitored periodically during this time period to address...

Annual COI disclosure cycle - possible delayed response time
Jun 30, 2022

Hello Everyone,Our annual Conflict of Interest Disclosure cycle is starting again on 07/01/2022. The start of this period coincides with the staff mem...

Cayuse Animal Oversight and Cayuse Hazard transition is complete
Jun 8, 2022

Hello Researchers,The transition of IACUC and IBC paper protocol forms to Cayuse Animal Oversight and Cayuse Hazard is complete.  If you have a p...

IACUC and IBC - Cayuse transition and training
May 18, 2022

Hello Researchers,The IACUC and IBC office is in the process of transitioning to a new electronic protocol system called Cayuse. We are scheduled to b...

IRB Blackout
Apr 5, 2022

IRB blackout period from April 18th to May 2nd due to transfer from IRBIS to Cayuse for IRB submissions. Starting with April 18th users will not ...

Cayuse -Reminders received even when you already completed your disclosure
Jul 2, 2021

Hello all,During the implementation of our new software, a glitch has occured that has sent a system email to those of you who have already completed ...

COI Disclosures - New platform
Jun 30, 2021

Hello all,Our office is rolling out a new platform for COI disclosures. Effective July 1, 2021 all COI disclosures will need to be made through the Ca...

IRB Questions - Please send to IRB@appstate.edu
May 5, 2021

Hello All,Nathanael has moved on to a new opportunity and is no longer employed at Appalachian State. Please send your questions and other communicati...

IRB Forms and Template Update
Dec 1, 2020

The Office of Research Protections has added, updated, or removed several documents on the IRB Forms and renamed Consent Guidance and T...

UNC-system server outages-IRBIS
Apr 21, 2020

Due to UNC-system wide server outages, access to IRBIS is currently limited and the processing of IRB applications will be delayed until the situation...