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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">FSU has just joined ResearchMatch, a national recruitment database with tens of thousands of volunteers interested in being study participants for human subjects research.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Access to and use of ResearchMatch (
<a href="https://www.researchmatch.org/">https://www.researchmatch.org/</a> ) is <b>
<u>free.</u></b> The Office for Clinical Research Advancement (OCRA) will be the FSU liaison and main point of contact for FSU researchers using the site. All researchers have to do to get started is register on the site and affiliate with FSU at
<a href="https://www.researchmatch.org/researchers/">https://www.researchmatch.org/researchers/</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Launched in 2009 by Vanderbilt University, the ResearchMatch database has more than 167,000 volunteers across the country who are interested in participating in health-related
research studies. Volunteers represent various demographic, geographic and health backgrounds, including healthy participants. To date, nearly 12,000 researchers have used the site to conduct almost 1,200 studies and publish more than 600 research manuscripts.
The service is funded by the National Institutes of Health. FSU joins five other Florida universities, Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa and Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter using ResearchMatch.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Registered FSU researchers will have two types of access to ResearchMatch: feasibility and recruitment.
<b><i>Feasibility access</i></b> allows the researcher to view aggregate data of potential study volunteers in the database, which is helpful for cohort determination. Researchers do not need an approved IRB protocol to do a feasibility search of potential
study participants on ResearchMatch.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Recruitment access</span></i></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> allows researchers with IRB-approved protocols to search and contact study
volunteers. The researcher uses the study criteria along with geographic, demographic, health condition and medication filters on ResearchMatch to generate a de-identified group of volunteers who “match” the study criteria.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Study volunteers, who self-register on ResearchMatch, can choose whether to participate when the system emails them information from the researchers about their studies. The
volunteer’s information is kept confidential until the volunteer agrees to participate in the study. At that point the researcher is provided the volunteer’s contact information.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Researchers can contact up to 1,500 volunteers at one time and recruit for multiple IRB-approved studies at the same time, including multi-site studies. ResearchMatch also provides
each researcher with a personal dashboard to track overall response rates to their recruitment messages. Basic scientists conducting translational research involving human subjects also can use the site.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Contact OCRA at
<a href="mailto:ocra@fsu.edu">ocra@fsu.edu</a> for more information.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thank you, Donna</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Donna O’Neal<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Director, Office for Clinical Research Advancement (OCRA)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">FSU Office of Research <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2000 Levy Avenue, Building A, Suite 362, Room 366<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tallahassee, FL 32306-1330<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(850) 644-4709<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For OCRA assistance: <a href="mailto:ocra@fsu.edu">ocra@fsu.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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