News and Updates

08/09/2007 Our address has changed!

We are now located at:

Clinical Trials Office
The University of Iowa
201 Gilmore Hall
Iowa City, Iowa 52242
11/14/2006 The ACRP Certification Exam will be held around the country on March 10, 2007. Deadline to sign up is January 19, 2007. If you think you may be sitting for the exam, please let Charlotte Talman know.
05/22/2006 The Special Programs Questionnaire has been updated for 2006. It is available on the Online Forms page in Word and PDF format. If you want information on these standard discounts or have questions about the form, call Lori Lawton in the Special Programs Office at 384-2456. This form can only be downloaded from a UI computer and is available for the use of faculty and staff.
11/08/2005 The Health Protection Office has an online course and test that coordinators and other staff members can take in order to be recertified for safe shipping of infectious substances. Visit the HPO training page and click on "online courses."
10/03/2005 The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) now requires, as a condition of consideration for publication, registration in a public trials registry. Registration must occur prior to initiating the research to meet the standards set by the ICMJE. Failure to register will make the results of the trial ineligible for publication in the journals represented by the association. ICMJE member publications include the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and the Lancet. An editorial signed by several editors of these journals appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Registration requirements for new clinical trials began on July 1, 2005. For trials that began enrollment prior to that date, the ICMJE member journals required registration by September 13, 2005, before considering the trial for publication. Though it does not specify where the trials must be registered, the association created certain criteria for registries. Currently, only the National Library of Medicine's www.clinicaltrials.gov meets those requirements although the editorial states there may be others, now or in the future that would be satisfactory.