OHRP Forum | June 9, 10, and 12, 2025

Sessions (more details coming soon)

• Promoting a Culture of Integrity

• The Role of Open Science in Research Integrity

• Balancing Innovation with Ethical Responsibility

• Handling Research Misconduct

• ORI

Sessions (more details coming soon)

• Technological Advances & AI in Research

• Data Privacy and Security in Research

• Platforms for IRB Management

• AI Solutions

• Ensuring Reproducibility and Transparency in Research

• When is AI use human subjects research under the Common Rule? And potentially important considerations.

  • Speaker: OHRP

  • Description: The Common Rule provides a baseline standard for human subjects protection in HHS/federally-funded research. As artificial intelligence (AI) is being employed more readily in research, a clear understanding of the relationship between the technology and the research will help institutions determine if the Common Rule applies and what considerations, ethical or otherwise, investigators may find valuable.

Sessions (more details coming soon)

• Emerging Trends in Research Compliance

• Managing Conflicts of Interest

  • Speaker: Bryant Gordon, Compliance Program Manager, Conflict of Interest Office, University of Utah
  • Description:

    This presentation will provide a basic review of conflict of interest policies and why institutions need to understand their importance. Case studies will be presented that highlight what can happen when conflicts are not adequately identified and managed. We will also address institutional COI recommendations. The last half of the presentation will include what is coming up for institutions now that the Federal Government is in the process of harmonizing COI policies and offer insights of ethical questions.

  • Objectives:

    1. Identify the basic COI requirements institutions need to consider, including institutional conflicts, and recognize what can happen when COI isn’t adequate. 

    2. Understand the new federal requirements, and how future changes might impact current processes and consideration.

• Improving Institutional Review Board (IRB) Processes

• International Perspectives on Research Compliance

• Open discussion with OHRP/ORI

• The Future of Research Integrity