Updated June 10, 2020 (Originally posted May 25, 2020) UNC Research Community, As UNC-Chapel Hill begins to increase the volume of research conducted on campus in a phased, safe, and sustainable way as communicated in the OVCR’s May 23, 2020 communication, … Read more

Dear Members of the UNC Research Community, As UNC-Chapel Hill is closely monitoring the spread of the coronavirus and COVID-19 and information is being shared with campus at https://www.unc.edu/coronavirus/, the UNC-Chapel Hill’s Office of Human Research Ethics wanted to update our research community with … Read more

To:  UNC-Chapel Hill Research Community, As of June 1, 2020, UNC-Chapel Hill Office of Human Research Ethics (OHRE) will require Human Subjects Protection (HSP) training through the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI Program) be renewed every three years.  This requirement aligns with many of UNC’s federal and industry sponsors … Read more

All, I am happy to announce that Mike Matamoros has been named Associate Director, Operations and Education in the Office of Human Research Ethics (OHRE) effective Monday, January 27, 2020. Mike Matamoros has been with the OHRE at UNC for 6.5 years … Read more

Dear Members of the UNC Research Community, As a reminder, while operations at the University of North Carolina are closed,  an emergency use of an investigational drug, biologic or device is permissible without prior IRB approval if the following criteria … Read more