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...
Research Protections' Updated Guidance Regarding COVID-19
Apr 8, 2020
We continue to monitor the changing impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on University operations, including continuity of research. In conjunction w...
2019 Novel Coronavirus renamed to COVID-19
Feb 11, 2020
Hello everyone,The World Health Organization (WHO) oficially named the 2019 coronavirus that originated in Wuhan. The chosen name is COVID-19, so keep...
Research Protections Office Hours in LHHS!
Feb 7, 2020
We are excited to announce that members of the RP Office are available in the Levine Hall of Health Sciences 3 days a week!Our office is 448W (in the ...
China CDC update - Avoid nonessential Travel
Jan 28, 2020
As of January 27, 2020. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) has upgraged the risk for the Novel Coronavirus to a Lvl 3 - Warning. As part of this war...
2019 Novel Coronavirus (nCoV-2019) and travel to China
Jan 23, 2020
On December 31, 2019, the first case of the coronavirus now known as nCoV-2019 were reported to the World Health Organization by China. Since then, th...
Update to Payment for Human Subjects Guide
Jan 22, 2020
The guidelines for paying human research subjects are provided by the Controller's Office, not the IRB. We have added some clarifications on our...
Spring IRB Meeting Dates and a Change in Deadlines
Dec 18, 2019
Hello, IRB meeting dates for the Spring semester have been posted. We also have changed the due dates for submissions. Several years ago th...
IRB review status over the holiday break
Dec 18, 2019
Things have not slowed down in the IRB Office! We are currently working our way through an unusually high number of studies at this time of year...