News

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...

Office Closed - 12/23/19 - 1/1/20
Dec 13, 2019

Our office will be closed starting 12/23/19. We will return on 1/2/20. E-mail inboxes will be monitored periodically during this time period to a...

Welcome Nat Krancus!
Oct 29, 2019

Nathanael Krancus has joined our office as Associate Director and IRB Administrator.  Nat comes by way of the University of Washington where he h...

11/6/19 IRB Workshop tailored for graduate students
Oct 28, 2019

Robin Tyndall is hosting an IRB workshop in Leon Levine Hall, room 319 on Wednesday November 6 from 3pm-5pm. This workshop is tailored for graduate st...