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Office of Research & Grants Administration
Research Involving Human Participants

The College of Charleston Institutional Review Board

The role of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) is to provide research oversight and evaluation of the institution's research involving human participants by ensuring compliance with federal regulations. The IRB also provides assistance to investigators in fulfilling their obligation to plan and conduct research involving human participants in accordance with the highest scientific and ethical principles.

  • College of Charleston researchers - select 'Human Research Review ... eForms' under IRB forms in the drop-down menu bar.
  • Non-College of Charleston researchers - select 'External Request to Recruit Research Participants' under IRB forms in the drop-down menu bar.

  • New! eForms are required for all IRB protocols - initial application, modification and continuation requests, adverse/unanticipated event reports, and final reports. For protocols initiated using paper forms, the Protocol Modification, Continuing Review, & Final Report (PDF) and the Adverse Event Report (PDF) must still be used.

    New! A link has been added in the application to a template for preparing anonymous survey consent documents. You can also find it under IRB forms in the blue drop-down menu bar.

    New! If you are the sponsor/mentor for student research projects, when you log in to the IRB eForms, you will find a list of your students' projects as well as your own. You can see the status of the form 'temporary, submitted, or approved' and you can review the form in 'view only' mode. Changes to a form still need to be made by the principal investigator. We hope that this will make it easier for you to track your students' human participant research projects.


    [DHHS] Federalwide Assurance of Protection for Human Subjects: FWA 00000772

    Terms of the Federalwide Assurance

    QUESTIONS OR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION?

    Please contact the Office of Research and Grants Administration if you have any questions regarding the IRB or the use of human participants in research.

     

    Eileen Callahan
    Research Protections & Compliance
    Office of Research & Grants Administration
    College of Charleston
    843-953-7421
    callahane@cofc.edu

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