Institutional Review Board
Charles River Campus Institutional Review Board
Overview
The Charles River Campus (CRC) Institutional Review Board (IRB) was created to comply with federal regulations and state laws for the protection of the rights and welfare of human research subjects.
The purpose of the CRC IRB is to protect the rights and welfare of human subjects of research and to assure that clinical research is conducted according to corresponding federal regulations, state law, and IRB policies.
The CRC IRB applies the Belmont Principles to its deliberations and decision-making in its goal to protect the rights and welfare of human subjects of research, while applying federal regulations and state laws to human research.
All research or clinical investigations involving human subjects in which CRC, its staff, its students, or its patients are involved may be subject to the authority of the IRB, regardless of funding source or other regulatory requirements.
The Belmont Report: Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research, written by the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research, and published in 1979 delineates the ethical principles for the conduct of human research upon which the United States federal regulations are based.
The Charles River Campus IRB has forms for IRB New protocols, Federal Policies and Human Subjects, as well as many others.
If you are working on the BU Medical Campus please visit the BU Medical IRB.
