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This office is responsible for specific components of research compliance including the Institutional Review Board, Institutional Biosafety/Biohazard, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, and Research Integrity. Reporting directly to the Vice Provost for Research and Sponsored Programs, the office is responsible for developing and implementing policies, procedures, programs, and educational activities which satisfy Federal, State, Local, and institutional rules and regulations which govern the proper conduct of research.

Our Mission
To ensure University compliance with Federal, State, Local, and institutional rules and regulations governing the ethical conduct of research involving human subjects, animal care and use, and biosafety. It also ensures University commitment to maintaining the highest integrity in research and scholarship by its faculty, staff, and students.

If you have any questions, need to report an adverse event, and/or seek further clarification, please do not hesitate to call (615) 898-8918 or e-mail compliance@mtsu.edu.

If you have any concerns regarding integrity and ethics in research and scholarship at MTSU, please do not hesitate to call (615) 898-8918 or e-mail compliance@mtsu.edu. The confidentiality of anyone who contacts the office will be protected under the Whistleblower Protection Act. Working together we will promote the highest standard of integrity and ethics in research and scholarship.

Leigh Gostowski
Compliance Officer
Sam H. Ingram Bldg. 011B
Murfreesboro, TN 37132
PH: 615-494-8918
FX: 615-904-8020
Email: gostowsk@mtsu.edu