News

Updates to ORPC forms and documents

To continue our outreach and providing the most up to date templates for our investigators to use, please click on the ORPC Documents and Forms page to download the most current versions. These...

Posted: December 17, 2015, 9:03 AM

Webnet Training

Webnet Training back up and running!

Webnet training is now back up and running.  We apologize for any inconvenience in attempts to access training. If you have any questions please contact us at compliance@umbc.edu.

Posted: December 16, 2015, 4:02 PM

Webnet Training

IBC and IACUC courses currently unavailable

The ORPC regrets to inform you that the "Webnet" site for IBC and IACUC training is currently unavailable, and we are unable to add new users at this time.  We will update this post to let you...

Posted: December 11, 2015, 11:46 AM

Animal Use Applications and PHS Policy

Simplification of the Vertebrate Animals Section

NIH has simplified the Vertebrate Animals Section (VAS) of grant applications, cooperative agreements, and contract proposals to remove redundancy with IACUC review while meeting the requirements...

Posted: October 19, 2015, 9:54 AM

Human Subjects Research Protections

Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM)

Those who cannot attend the October 20, 2015 Public Town Hall Meeting to respond to questions related to the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects Notice of Proposed Rulemaking...

Posted: October 19, 2015, 9:50 AM

Biosafety Stewardship

October is “National Biosafety Stewardship Month”

National Biosafety Stewardship Month is a period during which institutions, such as UMBC, are encouraged to focus  efforts on promoting awareness of investigator responsibilities and sustaining a...

Posted: October 13, 2015, 3:27 PM

Human research regulations are being updated

Learn more of how these changes may impact your research

The current regulations, which were developed over two decades ago, are being updated by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to enhance oversight of research on human subjects and...

Posted: October 6, 2015, 9:35 AM

ORPC Research Education and Training Access

You Asked. We Listened!

In an effort to improve access to all of ORPC’s research related training, we have made changes to the registration information in our training pages that will make the process of signing up for...

Posted: October 1, 2015, 10:57 AM

Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC)

The next IACUC meeting is scheduled for October 14, 2015.  Investigators who want to have an application reviewed at this meeting should send a complete copy of the IACUC paperwork to...

Posted: September 11, 2015, 3:16 PM

Human Subjects Research Protections

Proposal to Improve Rules Protecting Human Research Subjects

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) issued on September 2, 2015 as a draft of the final rule intended to modernize, strengthen, and...

Posted: September 11, 2015, 2:56 PM