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SECTION 345: RESEARCH INVOLVING HUMAN PARTICIPANTS

SOURCE: NDSU President

North Dakota State University has provided a formal guarantee to the Office of Human Research Protections, in the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), that it will follow procedures which will assure the protection of all human participants involved in NDSU research projects. This guarantee applies to all such research conducted by faculty, students, staff, or other representatives of the University, whether or not the research is sponsored by agencies of the U.S. Government.

In order to comply with this assurance, the University has established an organization competent to review research projects that involve human participants. In compliance with federal provisions (Protection of Human Subjects (45 CFR 46, 21 CFR 50)), the Institutional Review Board (IRB) has been designated to review these projects by the Office of the Vice President for Research, Creative Activities & Technology Transfer.

The function of the IRB is to assist investigators in the protection of the rights and welfare of human participants. Investigators will not bear the sole responsibility for determining the standards for ethical conduct of research involving human participants. It is necessary for others, who are independent of this research, to share this responsibility. The University's guidelines for human subject research were approved by the University Senate on October 13, 1986. They have been incorporated into a document called, NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY GUIDELINES FOR THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN PARTICPANTS IN RESEARCH. Copies of this document are available from the IRB Office, or NDSU IRB web page.

HISTORY: December 18, 1974; Amended April 1992; July 2006