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Animal Use Applications

Writing the Vertebrate Animal Section

Federal policy requires that if you are going to use live vertebrate animals in NIH funded research, you must adhere to the requirements in the PHS Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory...

Posted: May 4, 2016, 2:51 PM

Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP)

OHRP has a new website!

The Office for Human Research Protections provides leadership in the protection of the rights, welfare, and wellbeing of subjects involved in research conducted or supported by the U.S. Department...

Posted: May 3, 2016, 11:26 AM

Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC)

Use of Recombinant DNA and Biohazardous Materials

The University of Maryland, Baltimore County Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) was approved in 2015 by the NIH Office of Biotechnology Activities. The IBC is responsible for ensuring that...

Posted: April 13, 2016, 11:09 AM

Importance of keeping participant data safe and secure

Improper disclosure of research participants’ protected health information results in $3.9 million HIPAA settlement Feinstein Institute for Medical Research agreed to pay the U.S. Department...

Posted: March 18, 2016, 8:58 AM

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: February 19, 2016, 1:52 PM