The University of Wisconsin-Madison Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (OVCR) is responsible for providing financial and administrative assistance for 17 research centers, including research administration. The Office of Research Compliance, located within OVCR, is home to the Human Research Protection Program (HRPP) and the Office of the Institutional Review Boards (IRB). The IRBs oversee human participant research conducted at UW-Madison and include the Health Sciences (HS) IRB and the Minimal Risk Research (MRR) IRB. The IRBs review biomedical and health sciences research projects, as well as education and social behavioral research projects, to determine whether the research meets the federal criteria for approval. The office works closely with a variety of const