Welcome to the Penn State Hershey Institutional Review Board and Human Subjects Protection Office
The mission of the Penn State College of Medicine Institutional Review Board (IRB) is to advocate for the rights and welfare of human research participants and to promote high quality research by fostering an institutional culture embodying the highest ethical standards of human research. More…
Human Research Protections Program Receives National Accreditation
Penn State’s Human Research Protection Programs have been successful in obtaining re-accreditation by the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs. Penn State was awarded the status of full accreditation for a five-year period, effective March 12. More...
HSPO Updates and Announcements
- August 2012 - HSPO Update
- Scientific Review Requirement for Research
- November 2011 - HSPO Update
- New Policy - Security and Integrity of Human Research Data
- IRB Education Policy
- IRB Seminars and Workshops
- July 2011 - HSPO Update
- Good Clinical Practice and ICH Course Requirement
- June 2011 - HSPO Update
- Good Clinical Practice and ICH Course Requirement
- Updated CITI Course Instructions
- Revised Radiation Review Form
- IRB Workshop
- December 2010 - HSPO Update
- IRB Submissions Screened for Completeness
- Updated Assurance Statements/Signature Pages
- Documentation Available in PRAMS for All Research
- Updated CITI Course Access Instructions
- Bariatric surgery restores nerve cell properties altered by diet Understanding how gastric bypass surgery changes the properties of nerve cells that help regulate the digestive system could lead to new treatments that produce the same results without surgery, according to Penn State College of Medicine scientists, who have shown how surgery restores some properties of nerve cells that tell people their stomachs are full.More...
- Penn State College of Medicine awarded $1 million AMA grant Penn State College of Medicine has been awarded a prestigious $1 million grant by the American Medical Association as part of a program aimed at transforming the way the physicians of tomorrow are trained.More...
- Penn State Hershey entrepreneurs win first 'startup boot camp' awards Dr. Joseph Sassani, ophthalmologist at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and professor of ophthalmology and pathology at Penn State College of Medicine, is the winner of The TechCelerator@Hershey’s inaugural Eight Week Boot Camp program for promising entrepreneurs.More...
- Collaborative Hershey and University Park medical service trip This spring brought the first collaborative spring break service trip for University Park undergraduates and Hershey medical students and physicians.More...
