Policies of Institutional Review Board (IRB)
An institutional review board (IRB) is a committee that has been formally designated to approve, monitor, and review all type of research including biomedical and behavioral research, on human and animal, conducted by researchers of the University.
Objectives of the Institutional Review Board (IRB):
* To ensure research using scientifically sound research proposals.
* To abide with accepted international guideline on research e.g Helsinki Guideline and similar.
* To ensure rights, dignity and welfare of the participants involved in the research.
Functions of IRB:
- It will ensure highest standard of research using scientifically sound research project. For this, IRB will develop its own guideline for the development of scientifically sound research project or may identify reputed guidelines, available online, that may be followed by the University.
- IRB may also monitor the progress of the research and may introduce periodic audit to ensure implementation of the project.
- Special care will be taken while using any new drug or procedure as intervention to ensure safety of the participants. For this separate guideline will be developed or may use accepted online guideline.
- IRB will consider the ethical issues of all the research projects as per internationally accepted guideline; it may also develop its own guideline as per local need, other national guideline as well as international guideline.
- There will be separate guideline for collaboration between different institute or body, inside or outside the country.
- Shall develop guideline for preservation and further use of biological sample inside or outside the country.
- Shall develop different guideline for research involving stem cell and on gene study.
Composition rules:
The IRB must have at least eleven members:
- The members must have enough experience, expertise, and diversity to make an informed decision on research.
- The IRB should include both men and women, as long as they aren’t chosen specifically for their gender.
- All members of the IRB must not be of the same profession.
- One reputed scientist and one theologist, outside the university, will also be the member of the committee.
- One Pro-Vice-Chancellor, three professors, two associate professors and two assistant professors from different faculties of BSMMU and one professor from affiliated institutes, may be included in IRB as a member.
- The membership will be for a period of 3 years. An individual may continue for not more than two terms consecutively.
The IRB may co-opt one or more member for a particular meeting, they will be expert on the topic to be covered on the session and IRB felt necessary to supplement.
Institutional Review Board (IRB) Committee:
| SI. No. | Name Address | Designation |
| 1 | Professor AKM Mosharraf Hossain Pro-vice Chancellor (Academic) |
Chairman |
| 2 | Chairman, Department of Public Health and Informatics |
Member |
| 3 | Professor Dr. Kawsar Sardar Head, Department of Anesthasiology, BIRDEM, Dhaka |
Member |
| 4 | Professor Dr. Muhammad Abdur Rashid Department of Islamic Studies, Dhaka University |
Member |
| 5 | Professor Dr. Khondker Manzare Shamim Department of Anatomy |
Member |
| 6 | Professor Dr. Md. Mozammel Hoque Department of Biochemistry |
Member |
| 7 | Professor Dr. A.K.M. Akhtaruzzaman Chairman, Department of Anesthasiology |
Member |
| 8 |
Professor Dr. Md. Nazrul Islam Department of Rheumatology |
Member |
| 9 |
Professor Dr. Ranjit Ranjan Roy Department of Paediatric Nephrology |
Member |
| 10 |
Professor Dr. Harisul Hoque Department of Cardiology |
Member |
| 11 | Professor Dr. Md. Abul Kalam Azad Department of Internal Medicine |
Member |
| 12 | Professor Dr. M A Shakoor Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation |
Member |
| 13 | Professor Dr. Sultana Ferdousi Department of Physiology |
Member |
| 14 | Professor Dr. Muhammad Nazrul Islam Department of Nephrology |
Member |
| 15 |
Professor Dr. Suraiya Begum Department of Paediatrics |
Member |
| 16 |
Professor Dr. Zafar Khaled Department of Ophthalmology |
Member |
| 17 |
Professor Dr. Jannatul Ferdous Department of Gynaecological Oncology |
Member |
| 18 |
Professor Dr. M A Hasanat Department of Endocrinology & Metabolism |
Member |
| 19 |
Professor Dr. Sanjoy Kumar Dey Department of Neonatology |
Member |
| 20 |
Professor Dr. Nuzhat Choudhury Department of Ophthalmology |
Member |
| 21 |
Professor Dr. Debatosh Paul Department of Laboratory Medicine |
Member |
| 22 |
Professor Dr. Md. Showkat Kabir Department of Community Ophthalmology |
Member |
| 23 |
Professor Dr. Md. Ahsan Habib Department of Neurology |
Member |
| 24 |
Professor Dr. Md. Shahidullah Department of Neurology |
Member |
| 25 |
Dr. Dipal Krishna Adhikary Associate Professor, Department of Cardiology |
Member |
| 26 |
Dr. Shamim Ahmed Associate Professor, Department of Respiratory Medicine |
Member |
| 27 |
Dr. Lubna Khondker Associate Professor, Department of Dermatology and Venereology |
Member |
| 28 |
Dr. Mohammed Saiful Islam Bhuiyan Associate Professor, Department of Dermatology and Venereology |
Member |
| 29 |
Dr. Md. Amzad Hossain Associate Professor, Department of Prosthodontics |
Member |
| 30 |
Dr. Subrata Kumar Biswas Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry |
Member |
| 31 |
Dr. Rajashish Chakrabortty Associate Professor, Department of Respiratory Medicine |
Member |
| 32 |
Dr. Fariha Haseen Associate Professor, Department of Public Health & Informatics |
Member |
| 33 |
Dr. Shahjada Selim Associate Professor, Department of Endocrinology & Metabolism |
Member |
| 34 |
Dr. Moshiur Rahman Khasru Associate Professor, Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation |
Member |
| 35 |
Dr. Sadia Sharmin Associate Professor, Department of Oncology |
Member |
| 36 |
Dr. Sheikh Mohammad Noor-E-Alam Associate Professor, Department of Hepatology |
Member |
| 37 |
Dr. Mohammad Tanvir Islam Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine |
Member |
| 38 |
Dr. Samprity Islam Assistant Professor, Department of Respiratory Medicine |
Member |
| 39 |
Dr. G.M Sadik Hasan Deputy Registrar (Academic) |
Member Secretary |
| Date | Subject | Download |
| 30.01.2020 | IRB Office Notice |  |
| 26.12.2019 | IRB Office Notice | |
| 26.01.2019 | IRB Office Notice |  |
| 09.01.2019 | IRB Office Notice | |
| 09.12.2018 | IRB Office Notice | |
| 16.07.2018 | IRB Office Notice | |
| 26.06.2018 | IRB Office Notice | |
| 10.06.2018 | IRB Office Notice | |
| 12.05.2018 | IRB Office Notice | |
| 08.05.2018 | IRB Office Notice | |
| 24.04.2018 | IRB Office Notice | |
| 21.07.2018 | IRB Office Notice | |
| 07.07.2018 | IRB Office Notice | |
| 23.06.2018 | IRB Office Notice | |
| 02.06.2018 | IRB Office Notice | |
| 19.05.2018 | IRB Office Notice | |
| 05.05.2018 | IRB Office Notice | |
| 21.04.2018 | IRB Office Notice | |
| 11.02.2018 | IRB Office Notice | |
| 27.01.2018 | IRB Office Notice | |
| 06.01.2018 | IRB Office Notice | |
| 19.12.2017 | IRB Office Notice | |
| 26.11.2017 | IRB Office Notice | |
| 13.11.2017 | IRB Office Notice | |
| 27.09.2017 | IRB Office Notice | |
| 30.07.2017 | IRB Office Notice | |
| 22.07.2017 | IRB Office Notice | |
| 12.06.2017 | IRB Office Notice | |
| 14.05.2017 | IRB Office Notice |  |
| 06.04.2017 | IRB Office Notice | |
| 31.01.2017 | IRB Office Notice | |
| 16.08.2016 | IRB Office Notice | |
| 31.07.2016 | IRB Office Notice | |
| 29.10.2016 | IRB Office Notice | |
| 22.11.2016 | IRB Office Notice | |
| 15.01.2017 | IRB Office Notice | |