Main Campus Institutional Review Board MissionThe University of New Mexico requires that research investigators must at all times protect the rights, privacy and welfare of individuals recruited for participation in research. The Institutional Review Board (IRB) holds the primary responsibility to protect human subjects involved in research studies conducted by departments, centers and institutes and other units on main campus. The jurisdiction of the IRB includes the authority to review, approve, modify or disapprove research protocols submitted by faculty, staff and student investigators. The process of review serves to ensure the safe and ethical conduct of research that ultimately will protect the rights and welfare of human subjects in an atmosphere of mutual trust and scientific integrity in the pursuit of knowledge. In the design, conduct, approval and review of research, investigators and the IRB adhere to the basic principles set forth in The Belmont Report: respect for persons, beneficence and justice.