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Common Rule Effective Date Delay
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and 15 other federal departments and agencies have announced a six month delay of the effective date...
Common Rule 2018: Implementation and Transition
The final revisions to the Common Rule (Federal Policy for the...
NIH Changes to Certificates of Confidentiality
Effective October 1, 2017, NIH will automatically issue Certificates of Confidentiality to all research funded by NIH that is collecting or using identifiable sensitive information. Additional...
Important Information Regarding HIPAA Training for Researchers
Historically, those who were conducting human subject research that involved accessing protected health information were required to complete the Internet-Based Studies in Education and Research (...
PA Supreme Court Decision & Informed Consent
The Human Research Protection Office is aware of the recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision, Shinal v. Toms, in which the Court held that a physician's duty to obtain Informed Consent...
January 25, 2018 is the new date for Single IRB Review
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) previously issued a policy on the use of a single Institutional Review Board (IRB) for multi-site research. The policy is to establish the expectation that...
Update on Training Requirements
Effective March 5, 2017, OSIRIS will prohibit the submission of new protocols when any member of the research team is not up-to-date with CITI training on Human Subject Research, Responsible...
NIH Extends Effective Date of Single IRB Review
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) previously issued a policy on the use of a single Institutional Review Board (IRB) for multi-site research. The policy is to establish the expectation that...
New Data Security Review Process
HRPO is pleased to announce that we are ready to initiate the new data security review process for all new studies effective November 6, 2016. We have been...
Orientation to Research Fundamentals-Basics for Research Coordinators
To register or for more information go to http://www.ctsi.pitt.edu/registrationorf.shtml.
New NIH Policy on the Use of a Single IRB for Multi-Site Research
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is issuing this policy on the use of a single Institutional Review Board (IRB) for multi-site research to establish the expectation that a single IRB (sIRB...
New Version of Qualtrics
The Qualtrics Insight platform is the newest survey creation platform from Qualtrics. On Tuesday, June 14, Qualtrics Insight will become the University’s service for conducting polls, surveys,...
New Global Operations Support
The University of Pittsburgh has recently launched five new global operations support initiatives for faculty, staff, and students traveling abroad for University business, including research. In...
IRB Office has a new name
Effective immediately, the University of Pittsburgh Institutional Review Board (IRB) Office, with the support of the Chancellor and Provost, has been renamed the Human Research Protection Office (...
Reminder about CITI expiration dates
CITI training courses expire every 3 years and CITI will send e-mail reminders 90 days before your courses expire. The refresher courses are automatically added to your curriculum, and will be...