Article from American Nurse Today, Volume 14, Number 10 Nurse research and the institutional review board  Learn how the IRB process works to ensure participant safety and quality research. By Amy Marzinsky, BSN, RN, OCN, and Cheryl A. Smith-Miller, PhD, … Read more

To: UNC-Chapel Hill Research Community On September 10, 2019 the UNC-Chapel Hill Office of Human Research Ethics (OHRE) will have several revisions go into effect to the OHRE/IRB Standard Operating Procedures (attached) and IRBIS updates that were identified through listening … Read more

To: UNC Research Community, On April 9, 2019, IRBIS will undergo a system update.  This system update is part of the changes discussed during the communication and education provided for the Final Revision to the “Common Rule” that went into … 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

Good afternoon, I am happy to announce that Cassandra (Cassie) Myers has been named Director of the Office of Human Research Ethics (OHRE) effective Monday, December 3rd. Myers served as the Deputy Director of OHRE until assuming the Interim Director … Read more