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The effective date for the 2018 Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects ("2018 Common Rule") will likely be further delayed until January 21, 2019. This delay gives the U-M IRBs time to:

Congratulations to Dr. Anna Lok, Assistant Dean for Clinical Research, on receiving the 2018 European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) International Recognition Award.

IRBMED has revised two of its specialty informed consent templates—the template for one-time blood draw and the template for survey-only studies—to reflect some of the new language in the revised...

Several of members of the Clinical Trials Support Office and our Strategic Partners attended the 25th Annual Forte Onsemble Conference, a biannual event that brings the research community together...

The U-M Medical School has made a long-term commitment to improving clinical trials research and the research patient experience. Our clinical trials community identified the need for an integrated...

Effective March 9, 2018, IRBMED has revised its standard informed consent template.  The working version containing blue and orange text boxes has been updated with additional instructions and...

"Overall, we found that it really HAS made things a lot more transparent!" was one of the first observations made by Peter Higgins, M.D., Ph.D. at a recent Clinical Trials Support Office event. "I...

A new six-month program at Michigan Medicine, the Clinical Trials Academy, recently kicked off with its first learning session in January.

R01 Boot Camp kicked off its fifth year on January 18, with 24 new mentees, 11 returning mentees, and 9 senior faculty coaches. On February 13, we hosted John Robertson, Ph.D., of Grant Writers'...

Revisions to the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects (“Common Rule”) scheduled to become effective on January 19, 2018 have been delayed. The existing Common Rule remains in effect,...