NIH Policy Change Regarding Certificates of Confidentiality As communicated by TraCS in early December 2017, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently updated its policy for issuing Certificates of Confidentiality … Read more
Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to announce the hiring of Cat Collins, CIP as the new Senior IRB Analyst. Cat came to UNC-CH from North Carolina A&T State University in … Read more
The NIH policy on the use of a single IRB (sIRB) of record for multisite research became effective on January 25, 2018. The policy applies to the domestic sites of … Read more
UNC’s Human Research Protection Program has been awarded full accreditation for the next five years by the Council on Accreditation of the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection … Read more
The UNC Office of Human Research Ethics/Institutional Review Board (OHRE/IRB) needs you! Presently, the OHRE/IRB is seeking to increase participation and expand membership of its four regular Biomedical IRBs and … Read more
In an extension of the work done in IRBIS over the summer to better classify External Personnel, we have made the following additional changes: Site Liaison designation on the Project … Read more
Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to announce the hiring of Mike Matamoros, MS, CIP as the new IRB Quality Improvement/Assurance Manager. Mike came to UNC from the University of Texas … Read more
Please see the attached announcement regarding the NIH mandate regarding single IRB review of multisite research. This information is relevant to investigators and research teams participating in or planning multisite … Read more
Revisions to Project Personnel Section 2 of the IRBIS application has been revised to more clearly distinguish UNC staff from UNC Network Entity or Affiliate staff, and to separate staff … Read more
To the research community: The Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs (AAHRPP) has provided UNC with the dates of our site visit for renewed accreditation. The site … Read more