The Faculty of Pharmacy Undergraduate Research Ethics Review Committee (FERC) has been decommissioned. All requests for ethics approval of research protocols involving human subjects (either funded or unfunded) are now reviewed centrally.

If you are an undergraduate student seeking ethics approval:

  1. For course-based research involving human subjects, please visit the following link for instructions on how to complete an application: https://research.utoronto.ca/ethics-human-research/ethics-review-course-based-research
  2. For other research involving human subjects, please visit the following link for instructions on how to complete an application: https://research.utoronto.ca/ethics-human-research/submit-human-ethics-protocol