From: Teller, Alan [at2059@mail.cumc.columbia.edu]

Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 10:43 AM

To: cuhs-irb@CUMC.COLUMBIA.EDU

Subject: Monthly IRB-Investigator Meeting: September 21, 2010

Dear Department Chairs, Faculty, and Colleagues:

Columbia University Institutional Review Boards invite you to join us at the next monthly meeting for investigators and research coordinators.

This month's session will be:
“Your Genetic Research Study And New Ethical Issues That Arise With Complete Genomic Analysis.”                                                                                                                                                       

Featured Presenter:
-Wendy Chung, MD, PhD

-Herbert Irving Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in Medicine

-Director of Clinical Genetics

-Columbia University

The meeting is scheduled for:
- Tuesday, September 21, 2010
- 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Location:
- Amphitheater 1; 630 West 168^th Street

The objectives of these monthly meetings are:

1) to help ensure that all human subjects research is conducted in accordance with the federal regulations, in an ethical manner, and with high standards of excellence; and

2) to form a network among researchers and the IRB for the purposes of facilitating human research.

Meetings are sponsored by the Columbia University Medical Center IRB.

Please RSVP to: https://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/webapi/register.php?eventID=43603

If you have questions, please call 212.305.5883.

Save the Date!

Robert B. MacArthur, Pharm.D., Director, Columbia University Medical Center Research Pharmacy: “The Research Pharmacy: What Investigators Need to Know.”                                                                           

- Date: October 14, 2010                                                                                                                       

- Time: 3:30-4:30 p.m.                                                                   

This message has been sent by the Columbia University Institutional Review Boards.

CUMC IRB: 212.305.5883 http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/dept/irb

CU-MS IRB: 212.851.7040 http://www.columbia.edu/cu/irb

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