This policy details guidelines regarding underage individuals (minors) in University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) research laboratories or facilities.

This policy defines the UAB employee classification/status of a UAB employee who may serve as a principal investigator on externally sponsored grants and contracts. This policy will also help OSP’s user community understand why, in certain cases, the PI of record for the funding entity may not be the PI of record for UAB. For example, on certain training or fellowship grants, UAB designates the mentor as the PI, whereas NIH designates the student as the PI.

This policy establishes UAB’s program for the protection of human subjects and describes the ethical standards and institutional commitments applicable to the conduct of human subjects research at UAB. This policy also serves as POL001 for UAB's Human Research Protection Program.

This policy requires relevant administrators and employees of UAB and UABHSF to ensure that clinical services associated with research studies are billed appropriately and in compliance with relevant laws, regulations, and contractual obligations.

UAB encourages the procurement and licensing of patents for inventions in the interest of the public, the inventor, and the university.

This policy differentiates case reports from human subjects research.

Clinical investigations involving human subjects and drugs, biologics, devices or test articles are subject to review. In order to comply with federal regulations, the IRB will determine what types of applications and exemptions (when applicable) are required for the study. This document describes various types of studies and instructions for submission and compliance.

This policy describes the process by which the IRB determines if risks are minimized for participants in a proposed project. Review process and relevant definitions are included in the document.

This policy requires the implenmentation of a quality assurance and quality improvement program to monitor compliance with federal regulations and improve the Human Research Protection Program processes

This policy outlines the requirements for formulating contracts with sponsors of proposed research.