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Office for the Protection
of Research Subjects
4505 Maryland Pkwy
Box 451047
Las Vegas, NV 89154-1047
Phone: (702) 895-2794
Fax: (702) 895-0805
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The Office for the Protection of Human Subjects

The OPRS safeguards the rights and welfare of human research subjects for research conducted by UNLV researchers. To this end, the OPRS is obligated and authorized to support the UNLV Social Behavioral Sciences and Biomedical Sciences Institutional Review Boards to:

  • Ensure that subjects are adequately informed of the nature of the study;
  • Ensure that subjects participation is voluntary;
  • Ensure that the benefits of a study outweigh its risks
  • Ensure that the risks and benefits of the study are evenly distributed among the possible subject populations, and
  • Suspend human subjects activity that violates regulations, policies, procedures, or an approved protocol, and report such violation and suspension to the Assistant Vice President for Research Services
 What's New


OPRS Newsletter

Information to assist researchers navigate the IRB review process. Click here to view. (PDF)

 

The IRB Information Exchange Series

A series of bi-monthly workshops to address human research subject federal regulations, UNLV Human Research Policy and IRB procedures
Workshop Series will be announced soon.

OPRS Open House

Researchers bring protocol specific questions to be addressed by OPRS staff
For calendar of complete events click here

Open House Calendar page

 

CITI Online Tutorial for the Protection of Human Subjects:

As of January 2005 CITI (http://www.citiprogram.org) is the only human subject researcher ethics training accepted with a new submittal, modification or continuing review package. Click here to learn more about CITI.