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New NIH Guidance on Informed Consent for Secondary Research with Data and Biospecimens

The VCU HRPP would like to draw the research community’s attention to a new resource made available by the NIH, on the topic of informed consent considerations for secondary research with data and specimens. This resource addresses only consent for the storage and sharing of data and biospecimens collected during a primary research protocol, for […]

2022 Annual IRB Satisfaction Survey Available

The VCU Human Research Protection Program invites members of the VCU and VCU Health research communities who are familiar with the Institutional Review Board (IRB) to take an anonymous satisfaction survey.   This annual satisfaction survey includes questions about the following topics: perceptions of the IRB, RAMS-IRB use, customer service provided by the HRPP staff […]

New: Training Sessions on Human Research Ancillary Reviews

Sign up for a special training session to learn all about human research ancillary reviews! Sessions will be held virtually using Zoom, on the following dates: In these training sessions, hear from representatives of the three most common ancillary review groups: Proposal Review and Oversight Committees (PROCs); the Massey Cancer Center Protocol Review and Monitoring […]

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