The Office of Regulatory Research Compliance (ORRC) will be closed beginning Monday, March 4, 2024, and reopen on Monday, March 11, 2024. 

Important Note: The Spring recess does not alter the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), Institutional Biosafety Commitee (IBC), or Institutional Review Board (IRB) meeting schedules or deadlines for submission, given that the break was considered in the planning of the year's schedule. 

During the break, Investigators may continue to submit complete applications via the iMedRIS (iRIS) (except IACUC). However, expedited, exempt, exclusion, and designated member review of the applications will not occur during this period. They will be processed when the ORRC reopens on March 11. 

If you have any protocol-related issues that need to be resolved before the break, please contact the ORRC as soon as possible. 

As previously noted, email is the preferred method of communication during the break. Please use the following email addresses to communicate with the ORRC as appropriate: 

• Medical IRB (Medical Institutional Review Board): IRB-medical.orc@howard.edu 

• Non-Medical IRB (Non-Medical Institutional Review Board): IRB.nonmedical.orc@howard.edu 

• IACUC (Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee): IACUC.orr@howard.edu 

• IBC (Institutional Biosafety Committee): IBC.orrc@howard.edu 

• Excluded Research: Exclusions.orc@howard.edu 

• MTA (Material Transfer Agreement): MTA.orrc@howard.edu 

• COI (Conflict of Interest): COl.orre@howard.edu 

• For general communications or to report compliance issues/concerns: theorre@howard.edu 

In Truth and Service,

Office of Regulatory Research Compliance