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Invitation to Apply to Be a Student Member of the IRB

Appointment will be for the 2020-2021 Academic Year

The Institutional Review Board (IRB), the formally designated UMBC committee to approve, monitor, and review research involving humans is currently accepting applications from students to join. ...

Posted: September 19, 2020, 8:35 AM

The October 18, 2020 “Go Live” date is fast approaching!

Correction from the last announcement

What this means for you    Remember that paper forms and requests will soon be a thing of the past. Key time frame dates:    Starting October 18, 2020 at 8:01 am,...

Posted: September 19, 2020, 8:14 AM

Kuali IRB for new protocols

Stay tuned to our myUMBC page for further details

We are pleased to announce that all configuration has been completed to meet the requirements of the live kickoff of Kuali Protocols for IRB, our cloud-based protocol management and administration...

Posted: September 7, 2020, 11:33 AM

New PostKuali Protocols for IRB drop in sessions

The ORPC has set up times for investigators to review the steps and any other IRB protocol creation questions as UMBC begins it's transformation to the Kuali cloud based protocol management...

Posted: September 1, 2020, 12:15 PM

Export Control Special Topics

Visit our special topics web page for new information from the world of export control management. In particular, review the disclosure of  work for foreign institutions or governments...

Posted: August 5, 2020, 10:03 AM

Repost from Kuali Research at UMBC

postedJuly 20, 2020sponsorKuali Research at UMBC 0 IMPORTANT COI Notifications Hello While upgrading the COI module, emails requesting PIS complete past disclosures  was sent out to...

Posted: July 20, 2020, 10:45 PM

Requests from non-UMBC investigators to recruit participants

Steps to follow for the IRB to allow recruitment

Members of the UMBC community receive, from time to time, requests from investigators unaffiliated with UMBC to recruit participants for human subjects research. Participants are generally...

Posted: June 29, 2020, 4:29 PM

Updates to IRB consent templates

Using feedback from investigators and IRB reviewers, the ORPC has updated wording to various sections of consent document templates. These updates were made to : Purpose : informing participants...

Posted: June 24, 2020, 11:06 AM

Duplicate project entries in Kuali COI disclosures

Our office has identified a series of duplicate Kuali emails for projects (proposals) sent to PIs/faculty that reference a proposal number as well as institutional proposal number with the same...

Posted: June 22, 2020, 2:48 PM