Who We Are:
The Office for Research Protections (ORP) at The Pennsylvania State University, "where research and integrity come together", originated in 1990.
Announcement:
Please see our News & Events page for our most recent updates.
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 the responsible conduct of research (RCR), the human participant and animal subject training initiative in the classroom, workshops and online learning. They also provide 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.
View our Organizational Chart (PDF)
If you are interested in learning more about our office please feel free to:
- navigate our very comprehensive ORP website
- send an inquiry via the webform
- call 814-865-1775
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