COVID-19 & Human Subjects Research Activities
The HRPP’s landing page serves as your most up-to-date information on how COVID-19 may impact human subjects research operations and processes. Please visit this page as your resource for timely information.
Special Amendment Form: Adding Remote Procedures
Studies that seek to add remote procedures in light of COVID-19 concerns should use the “Amendment Request Form - Remote Procedures” document found here to ensure prioritization and expeditious review.
Special Reportable Events Form: Adding Remote Procedures/Voluntarily Delaying Research Procedures
Studies that enacted remote procedures to protect participants without prior IRB approval or those that would like to voluntarily delay some research procedures should use the special reportable events form.
Closing Expedited Studies
Please remember that with the transition to the revised Common Rule, it is the PI’s responsibility to proactively notify the HRPP when an Expedited study has closed to recruitment and all human subject activities are ended, with identifiers destroyed.
Exempt Modification Request Form
Use this new Exempt Modification request form to revise any procedures, materials, and documents on Exempt research studies.
IACUC MS-222 Policy Update
The Guidelines for Preparation, Storage, Handling and Use of Tricaine Methanesulfonate (Tricaine-S, MS-222) is updated on our website. Questions? Contact IACUC@Brown.edu.