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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="line-height: normal;"><u style="line-height: normal;">IMPORTANT ALERT: RAMP IRB DOWNTIME MONDAY, MAY 18 2020 (6pm-12am ET)</u></b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">RAMP IRB, the web-based portal through which you upload your human research studies for FSU IRB and Office for Human Subjects Protection (OHSP) review, will undergo
an upgrade (RAMP IRB 9.1) on the evening of May 18, 2020 at 6:00PM ET. The upgrade may take between 4-5 hours or more to complete.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">The upgrade will provide the IRB with improved visibility of your studies so that pending reviews and researcher-required follow-up or responses are prominently
noted.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><u style="line-height: normal;">The upgrade will require that RAMP IRB be unavailable on Monday, May 18, 2020 beginning at 6:00PM ET, and may not be available
until midnight. You will not be able use RAMP IRB during this time</u></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">; therefore, please be sure to save any of your RAMP IRB work and log out of RAMP
IRB before this time. Contact us at </span><a href="mailto:humansubjects@fsu.edu" title="mailto:humansubjects@fsu.edu"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">humansubjects@fsu.edu</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">if you have any questions related to the upgrade.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">Thank you,</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">Office for Human Subjects Protection (OHSP)</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">Florida State University Office of Research</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">2010 Levy Avenue, Building B Suite 276</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">Tallahassee, FL 32306-2742</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">Phone: 850-644-7900</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">OHSP Group Email:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"> </span><a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"></span></a><a href="mailto:humansubjects@fsu.edu" title="mailto:humansubjects@fsu.edu" style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">humansubjects@fsu.edu</span></a><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">OHSP Web:</span><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt"><a href="https://ohsp.fsu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="https://ohsp.fsu.edu" style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">https://ohsp.fsu.edu</span></a></span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black"><span style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></p>
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