[FSU IRB] FSU Announcement to Immediately Cease Some In-Person Activities Involving Study Participants

[FSU Institutional Review Board]

Dear FSU research colleagues,


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 https://news.fsu.edu/announcements/covid-19/2020/03/23/temporary-cessation-to-some-fsu-human-subjects-research/.



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 https://www.research.fsu.edu/research-offices/ohsp/covid-19-and-human-research-studies/.



To see the related IRB-related COVID-19 FAQs, go to https://www.research.fsu.edu/media/5701/irb_faqs_20200324.pdf.



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.



Contact me at thstone at fsu.edu<mailto:thstone at fsu.edu> if you have any questions.



Best regards,



T. Howard Stone, JD, LLM, CIP

Director

Office for Human Subjects Protection (OHSP)

Florida State University Office of Research

2010 Levy Avenue, Building B Suite 276

Tallahassee, FL 32306-2742

Email: thstone at fsu.edu<mailto:thstone at fsu.edu>

Desk telephone: 850-644-0284

Cell (when away from desk): 850-597-4339

OHSP Main Line: 850-644-7900

OHSP Group Email: humansubjects at fsu.edu<mailto:humansubjects at fsu.edu>

OHSP Web: https://www.research.fsu.edu/hs

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