Please select the form or template relevant to your application below.
New applications
Application form for ethics approval for research: Human participants
Application form for ethics approval for research: Animal Studies
Application form for ethics approval for research: Biomedical Research
Application form for ethics approval for research: Genetically modified Organisms (GMO)
Monitoring of approved research studies:
Extension of ethical clearance/modification of approved protocol template
CSIR REC review submission process and submission dates overview
- The application form should be completed in plain English understandable to lay persons, and all abbreviations should be explained at their first time of mention.
- All sections in the application forms give a good guideline to the information required for a thorough ethical review to take place. It is therefore important that the application forms are completed in full.
- Please expand the boxes on the form to accommodate your answers.
- Please attach appendices as requested in the checklist. Where appendices required are not relevant to your study, simply mark sections accordingly.
| Research Ethics committee meeting schedule and submissions for 2019/2020 | ||
| Submission deadlines | REC review meeting dates | |
| 1st meeting | 25 January 2019 | 21 February 2019 |
| 2nd meeting | 08 March 2019 | 11 April 2019 |
| 3rd meeting | 03 May 2019 | 06 June 2019 |
| 4th meeting | 25 June 2019 | 25 July 2019 |
| 5th meeting | 16 August 2019 | 19 September 2019 |
| 6th meeting | 18 October 2019 | 21 November 2019 |
| 7th meeting | 24 January 2020 | 20 February 2020 |
Electronic submission of the application form should be made to the REC Secretariat: http://rec.csir.co.za/submissions.php