Facility Governance
Cost Analysis & Rate Setting for Research Facilities While fiscal administration at the ASC is largely shaped by federal regulation, the university looks for every opportunity to mitigate impacts to the costs borne by researchers. This approach can be seen most readily in the pricing of special services; before FY2018, the cost to PIs had […]
Updated Consent Form for Use of Research Videos or Recordings
The Charles River Campus (CRC) Institutional Review Board recognizes that that investigators may wish to use videos or recordings that were obtained during a research study for other purposes which are not related to the research study. This may include any of the following use in future research studies; educational or presentation purposes; scientific conferences; […]
Usutu virus (USUV) Agent Information Sheet
Research Occupational Health Program (ROHP) Boston University 617-358-7647 Agent Usutu virus (USUV) is an African mosquito-borne flavivirus belonging to the Japanese encephalitis virus serocomplex and is closely related to the Murray Valley encephalitis virus, Japanese encephalitis virus, and West Nile virus. Disease/Infection Usutu virus symptoms can include fever, rash, and neurological disorders Pathogenicity A flavivirus […]
Sindbis virus (SINV) Agent Information Sheet
Research Occupational Health Program (ROHP) Boston University 617-358-7647 Agent Sindbis fever is a self-limiting, mild, febrile disease with vesicular exanthema and arthralgia. Many infections cause no symptoms. Acutely symptoms consist of headache, fever, arthralgias (small joints). An M-P rash, fatigue, and muscle pain may develop. Rash including vesicular rash can affect trunk, limbs, palms, and […]
Reminder: summer student researchers must complete lab safety training, obtain medical clearance
Mentored summer research experiences provide tremendous learning opportunities for students wishing to participate in laboratory research. University Policy requires that all individuals, including summer research students, engaged in research laboratory activities must complete and have an up-to-date annual laboratory safety training and have medical clearance from Research Occupational Health Program (ROHP) before performing any research […]
Mayaro virus (MAYV) Agent Information Sheet
Research Occupational Health Program (ROHP) Boston University 617-358-7647 Agent Mayaro virus (MAYV) is a single-strand positive RNA virus belonging to the Togaviridae family and genus alphavirus. Since its isolation in Trinidad in 1954, sporadic outbreaks due to MAYV have occurred in Brazil and Bolivia. The virus or antibodies against the virus have also been detected […]
Heartland virus (HRTV) Agent Information Sheet
Research Occupational Health Program (ROHP) Boston University 617-358-7647 Agent Heartland virus (HRTV) is a phlebovirus in the Bunyaviridae family which is likely transmitted to humans by ticks. It was first detected in 2009 in Missouri. Active case finding has identified only a handful of additional confirmed cases in Missouri, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Indiana. Disease/Infection […]
Cache Valley virus (CVV) Agent Information Sheet
Research Occupational Health Program (ROHP) Boston University 617-414-7647 Agent Cache Valley virus (CVV) is a bunyavirus first isolated in Utah in 1956 that rarely causes disease in humans. It is one of the at least nine bunyaviruses which have been isolated in North America. CVV is found throughout much of North and Central America, where […]
West Nile virus Agent Information Sheet
Research Occupational Health Program (ROHP) Boston University 617-358-7647 Agent West Nile virus (WNV) is single-stranded RNA virus of the Flaviviridae family, genus Flavivirus. It is transmitted to humans primarily through the bite of an infected Culex mosquito. WNV was first isolated from a febrile patient in the West Nile district of Uganda in 1937 during […]