Promoting Ethical Human Research
  
  
 
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our mission...

 

"to provide quality service and assistance to enhance and facilitate the conduct of safe and ethical research involving human participants at the Medical Center, and help to further the Medical Center's research mission".

In support of its mission, the Human Research Office:

  • Helps to educate and assist the Medical Center research community on ethical and procedural issues related to research involving human volunteers;
  • Helps to facilitate compliance with federal regulations and guidance, state law, and institution policies;
  • Helps to ensure continued support from federal agencies, private foundations, industry, and the Medical Center for research involving human volunteers;
  • Conducts post-approval monitoring of IRB approved studies;
  • Strives to promote the conduct of additional research through the continuing development of tools and programs that help facilitate the responsible conduct of research involving human volunteers;
  • Provides administrative support for the Medical Center’s IRBs;
  • Monitors trends in research involving human volunteers and responds to changes in the field;
  • Provides individual and small group assistance to encourage the effective use of IRB services.
 
  
 
 
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IRB


An Institutional Review Board (IRB) is a federally mandated committee composed of scientists, clinicians, nonscientists and non-affiliated community representatives charged with overseeing all research projects involving human volunteers to protect the rights and welfare of the volunteers, certifying that the research is conducted according to the highest scientific and ethical standards. The University of Mississippi Medical Center’s IRBs fulfill this charge and help to further the university’s research mission by:

  • Reviewing and approving all proposed research involving human volunteers before it is initiated, and monitoring all ongoing research involving human volunteers, while it is being conducted, and after it is complete;
  • Ensuring and promoting the ethical conduct of research;
  • Ensuring compliance with Federal, State, and University requirements.