Who We Are:
The Office for Research Protections (ORP) at The Pennsylvania State University, "where research and integrity come together", originated in 1990. Please contact us with any questions, concerns or suggestions regarding Research Protections at Penn State.
Our mission:
- endorse a model for conducting outstanding research
- promote trust and respect among researchers, compliance committees and the community
- facilitate a partnership of shared responsibility
How we accomplish our mission:
- commit to customer service
- assist in the preparation of protocols
- prescreen all protocols
- schedule reviews
- maintain records of review proceedings for seven University compliance committees:
- Biomedical Institutional Review Board (IRB);
- Social Science Institutional Review Board (IRB);
- Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC);
- Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC);
- University Isotopes Committee (UIC);
- Individual Conflict of Interest;
- Institutional Conflict of Interest.
ORP Teams:
- program coordinators and assistants team
- facilitate the correspondence process between the researcher and the committee and are available to personally assist researchers in completing applications
- education team
- promotes and administers responsible conduct of research (RCR) programs through workshops and online learning, including the Scholarship and Research Integrity (SARI) program for graduate students, general RCR workshops, and online training for researchers. Provides technical support for online learning
- administrative team
- provides administrative support and management for research misconduct inquiries and investigations and for both individual and institutional conflict of interest
If you are interested in learning more about our office please feel free to:
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