About UIC-REC

     The University of the Immaculate Conception Research Ethics Committee (UIC REC) was created on June 24, 2015, to integrate all existing ethics committees in the university under a single institutional research ethics committee with component review panels, and guided by a unified set of standard operating procedures (SOPs). This initiative was intended to streamline and harmonize the process of ethics review, maximize the utilization of human and institutional resources, and provide a supportive and enabling environment for research in the university. 

     Its oversight applies to faculty, personnel, and students doing research in UIC; non-UIC researchers doing research in UIC; and non-UIC researchers doing research in non-UIC sites with no local ethics review committee (as mandated by the Philippine Health Research Ethics Board). In addition, it caters for researchers coming from other schools or regions who wish to have their research protocols be reviewed by UIC REC.