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<span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30)">Please be aware of an important FSU COVID-19-related announcement that may be relevant to your research activities. FSU leadership announced effective March
24, 2020 the immediate cessation until further notice of some research activities that involve in-person interactions or interventions with human research participants. To see the announcement go to <a href="https://news.fsu.edu/announcements/covid-19/2020/03/23/temporary-cessation-to-some-fsu-human-subjects-research/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px">https://news.fsu.edu/announcements/covid-19/2020/03/23/temporary-cessation-to-some-fsu-human-subjects-research/</a>.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30)">Further information and related FAQs as well as instructions have been published by the FSU Office for Human Subjects Protection (OHSP). For further information,
go to </span><u><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: blue"><a href="https://www.research.fsu.edu/research-offices/ohsp/covid-19-and-human-research-studies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px">https://www.research.fsu.edu/research-offices/ohsp/covid-19-and-human-research-studies/</a></span></u><u><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30)">.</span></u><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30)"></span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30)">To see the related IRB-related COVID-19 FAQs, go to <a href="https://www.research.fsu.edu/media/5701/irb_faqs_20200324.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px">https://www.research.fsu.edu/media/5701/irb_faqs_20200324.pdf</a>.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30)">For researchers to whom the FSU announcement applies, you are required unless an exception applies to your study to halt all in-person interactions and interventions
with human research participants. Please further share this message with your study team and as applicable to your study collaborators, sponsors and faculty advisors.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30)">Contact me at <a href="mailto:thstone@fsu.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px">thstone@fsu.edu</a> if you have any questions.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30)">Best regards,</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30)">T. Howard Stone, JD, LLM, CIP</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30)">Florida State University Office of Research</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30)">Email:<span> </span><a href="mailto:thstone@fsu.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px">thstone@fsu.edu</a></span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30)">OHSP Main Line: 850-644-7900</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30)">OHSP Group Email:<span> </span><a href="mailto:humansubjects@fsu.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px">humansubjects@fsu.edu</a></span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30)">OHSP Web:<span> </span><a href="https://www.research.fsu.edu/hs" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px">https://www.research.fsu.edu/hs</a></span></p>
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