Who Must Have CHR Approval Before Conducting Human Subjects Research?
UCSF faculty, staff, students, or others accesses UCSF facilities, patients or personnel must have CHR Approval. (Neither the site of the study nor the source of funding, or if there is funding, matters.) Stem Cells Yes. Further guidance can be found at the UCSF Human Stem Cell Research website. Data Death Files Yes, a new California law effective January 1, 2003 requires IRB approval for any research using individually identifiable information from death data files held by the State Registrar, local registrars, and county recorders. Further guidance can be found at Research Using Data Death Files.
