BERKELEY: COMMITTEE FOR PROTECTION

OF HUMAN SUBJECTS 101 WHEELER HALL, MC #1340

642-7461 * FAX: 643-6272

July 15, 2003

JEFFREY CHUNG, Ph.D.

MICHAEL SIMINOVITCH, Ph.D.

STEVEN DELLINGES

ROBIN LAFEVER

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Re: “Ergo Arm Support R&D – Phase II: Preliminary User Field Testing and Engineering Prototype

Refinement” – Departmental Research with Departmental Funding

Thank you for sending your revised protocol and consent forms relating to the project referred to above. They satisfy the Committee’s conditions and we are pleased to grant full approval.

The number of this project remains 2003-8-10. Please continue to refer to this number in all future correspondence about the project.

The expiration date of this approval is June 11, 2004. Approximately six weeks before the expiration date, we will send you a continuation/renewal request form. Please fill out the form and return it to the Committee, according to the instructions. If you do not receive these forms in a timely manner, please contact the CPHS Office at (510) 642-7461, or visit our website at http://cphs.berkeley.edu.

Attached is a copy of the consent materials reviewed by the Committee; the expiration date of the Committee's review of this form is noted on it. Please copy and use this stamped consent form for the coming year.

Please note that even though the Committee has approved your project, you must bring promptly to our attention any changes in the design or conduct of your research that affect human subjects. If any of your subjects experience any untoward events in the course of this research, you must inform the Committee within ten (10) working days.

If you have any questions regarding this matter, please contact the CPHS staff at 642-7467, FAX 643-6272, e-mail: .

Sincerely,

Jane Gilbert Mauldon

Chair, Committee for Protection of Human Subjects

Associate Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy

cc: Ms. Chris Byrne

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