The mission of Research Compliance Consulting is to provide project assistance to college and university research administration, particularly in areas related to federal and state research regulations

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Our approach:

• Responsive to your specific requests and concerns
• In consultation and collaboration with you
• Tailored to your specific institutional context – your research portfolio and your institution’s administrative culture, and crafted in your institutional format and voice
• Embracing the concept that a compliance program is a supportive partner working to enhance a vital facet of quality within research enterprise operations.  In this approach audit is an important tool but not a compliance program, and monitoring programs emphasize helping research teams do it right.

Subject expertise:

• Research compliance program design and operation
• Research policy and administration including stem cell research, tissue and data banking, data ownership and management, etc.
• Human subjects protection programs
• Humane animal care and use programs
• Individual conflict of interest
• Institutional conflict of interest
• Export controls
• Scientific integrity
• Sponsored research topics including effort reporting
• Clinical research topics including contracting, budgeting and billing
• HIPAA and research interfaces
• Institutional response to proposed new federal or state research regulations

A sampling of our services:

• Assistance in designing and establishing an institutional compliance program incorporating the classic elements outlined in federal guidance
• Analysis of specific regulatory or ethical topics and their operational implications
• Background on peer institution approaches to research issues
• Presentations to senior administrators and boards, to faculty, to staff, to other stakeholders
• Facilitation of research administrative task groups
• Policy drafts
• Procedure drafts
• Institutional communication drafts
• Training materials