HREA Panel D: Biomedical

Submission Closing Dates

Low risk research

Applications are to be submitted by no later than 5 pm on the closing date listed below and are reviewed monthly. Outcomes of the meeting will be circulated via email within 10 business days from the meeting date.

Modification requests, personnel modification requests and responses

Submissions must be provided by no later than 5 pm on a Tuesday and are reviewed weekly. The first submission deadline is the 25th January 2022.

Extension Requests and Late Submissions

Extensions for new applications to submission deadlines must be requested in writing before the submission deadline. Requests will be granted based on the number of applications listed on the panel agenda for the submission deadline and whether the maximum number of 20 applications has been exceeded. An extension of two working days will be provided for all requests granted.
Submissions received after the deadline without a approved extension request will be processed for the next available submission closing date.
Extension requests are not provided for modifications, personnel requests or responses.

2022

Closing Date	Meeting date
Monday 4 July	Tuesday 19 July
Monday 1 August	Tuesday 16 August
Monday 5 September	Tuesday 20 September
Monday 3 October*	Tuesday 18 October
Monday 7 November	Tuesday 22 November
Monday 21 November	Tuesday 6 December**

*Closing date moved to a Tuesday because of Public Holiday

** Meeting a week earlier to allow researchers time to submit executive responses

School/Faculty Allocation

The HREA Panel D: Biomedical will only review applications from the following schools:

Clinical School: Prince of Wales Hospital
Clinical School: St George Hospital
Clinical School: St Vincent's Hospital
Clinical School: SW Sydney
Medical Sciences
Psychiatry & Black Dog Institute
Women's / Children's Health
Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research
Immunology: St Vincent's Hospital
NeuRA

Ray Williams Biomedical Mass Spectronomy Facility
Skin and Cancer Foundation Australia
Thrombosis/Vascular Research
Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences (BABS)
Optometry and Vision Science
Optics and Radiometry
The George Institute for Global Health

Panel Members

Name	School	Membership Category
Dr Matthew Jones	Medicine	Panel Convenor
Dr Kim van Schooten	NeuRA	Panel Member
Dr Sheela Kumaran	Optometry and Vision Science	Panel Member
Dr Kwok Leung Ong	Medical Sciences	Panel Member
Dr Donel Martin	School of Psychiatry	Panel Member

Submission Requirements

To submit the application form you need to complete the following steps:

Attach all submission documents to an email.
Attach an email or letter of support for the project from Head of School.
In the cc section of the email, copy in any named student investigator(s) or co-investigator(s) listed on the application.
The person listed as the Chief Investigator must send the application using their work email address.
submit email by the relevant closing date to the humanethics@unsw.edu.au