HRPP/IRB Guidance for January 2025 Winter Storm/Water Outage
Human research community,
VCU continues to monitor the water outage impacting our region as well as the predicted second winter storm. While the new VCU HRPP toolkit includes templates and resources supporting more nimble approaches, some IRB-approved protocols may be impacted. Please refer to the following resources for guidance in determining what must be reported to the VCU HRPP and also any external IRB of record:
- HRP-103 – Investigator manual (page 12, section 8)
- HRP-103p – Investigator manual – Single IRB review of multi-site research (pSite)
In addition, our partners in the VCU Health Office of Clinical Research (OCR) are available to offer guidance as well as the following resources:
- VCU Health Adult Clinical Research Unit (CRU) in North Hospital is operational and may be appropriate to provide services for research teams.
- For full information on VCU Health facilities that are open/closed please visit the VCU Health Intranet News Page
We will provide further updates as this situation evolves. Please contact the IRB Analyst identified for your protocol, call (804) 828-0868, or email [email protected] if you have additional questions about managing your research until normal business operations resume.
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