Recent Policy Updates
View updates to the Stanford Research Policy Handbook.
Indirect (F&A) Cost Waivers
Add foreign government and foreign government funded organizations to be eligible for indirect cost waivers. School of Medicine can approve their own IDC waiver requests without VPDoR approvals.Federalwide Assurance for Protection of Human Subjects
Updated assurance statement to match what is current on our websiteConfidentiality of Administrative Panel Proceedings
Added reference to “confidentiality” and to participant “data”. Changed RPH “guideline” to “policy”. Slight wording changes. Added RCO link.Use of Employees or Laboratory Personnel as Research Subjects
Removed dates from 1980s and just reference panel review; Slight wording changesHuman Research Protection Program
Added reference to the Consortium for Applied Research Ethics Quality as informing our policy, VPDoR added “or designee” may modify policies as RCO Director may make minor changes to policyUse of Human Subjects in Student Projects, Pilot Studies, Oral Histories and QA/QI Projects
Added “could be limits to usage” of non research data becoming research data; Language updates; Removed aplac RPH links since this is HSRUniversity Laboratory Animal Occupational Health Program
Updated description of Occ Health program and center and risk categories (EH&S helped with revisions); Removed irrelevant HSR linkGuidelines for Studies Involving Human Volunteers Receiving Potentially Addicting Drugs
Slight wording changes (e.g., participant, change RPH “guideline” to “policy”, etc.)Human Stem Cell Research
Added Stem cell-derived embryo models took out mesenchymal; Added/updated linksTraining in the Protection of Human Subjects in Research
Update course name, Update links, Slight wording changes