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<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">IMPORTANT ALERT: IRB SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR JANUARY MEETING CHANGED TO DECEMBER 3</span></u></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The </span>
<a href="https://myramp.research.fsu.edu/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">RAMP</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> system, to include the RAMP IRB module, will be taken offline on
Friday, January 7, 2022, and RAMP IRB will be unavailable for your use until after 8:00AM ET on Monday, January 10. To accommodate the downtime and still provide sufficient time for the FSU Institutional Review Board (IRB) to consider any submissions for its
January 12 meeting, the deadline for submitting human research applications to the FSU Institutional Review Board (IRB) for this meeting was pushed back to midnight
<b><u>FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2021</u></b>, see this link: </span><a href="https://www.research.fsu.edu/research-offices/ohsp/meeting-dates-deadlines/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Meeting Dates & Deadlines | FSU Office of
Research</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Submissions received after this date may be scheduled for the February 9 IRB meeting. Please plan accordingly.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">IMPORTANT: you will not have ANY access to your RAMP IRB materials (communications, IRB-approved protocols, consent forms, etc.) or any RAMP IRB resources (templates, forms,
guides) during this time. This downtime is required so that FSU may launch its new Conflicts Administration and Management System (CAMS) module. To prepare for this RAMP downtime, as well as possible delay in return to functionality, you should plan to prepare
your RAMP IRB submissions and access any RAMP IRB library resources (templates, forms etc.) before or after this downtime period.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">For questions, contact us at </span><a href="mailto:humansubjects@fsu.edu" title="mailto:humansubjects@fsu.edu"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:blue">humansubjects@fsu.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
or 850-644-7900 (automated call answering with voice menu system to direct you to needed points of contact).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Office for Human Subjects Protection (OHSP)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Florida State University Office of Research<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">2010 Levy Avenue, Building B Suite 276<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Tallahassee, FL 32306-2742<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Phone: 850-644-7900<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">OHSP Group Email:
<a href="mailto:humansubjects@fsu.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">humansubjects@fsu.edu</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">OHSP Web:
<a href="https://ohsp.fsu.edu/" title="https://ohsp.fsu.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://ohsp.fsu.edu</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Check out our new<span style="color:#1F497D">
<a href="https://www.research.fsu.edu/research-offices/ohsp/faqs/"><span style="color:#0563C1">FAQs</span></a>
</span>and<span style="color:#1F497D"> <a href="https://www.research.fsu.edu/research-offices/ohsp/student-led-research/">
<span style="color:#0563C1">student-led research FAQs</span></a></span>!<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.research.fsu.edu/research-offices/ohsp/news-and-events/#RAMPOFFLINE"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="319" height="64" style="width:3.3263in;height:.6666in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D7D4B9.0D09BFE0"></span></a><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Click on the image above for scheduled RAMP downtime<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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