Applications are reviewed by the ESCRO Committee on an on-going basis. For applications requiring full-committee review, the Committee meets four times per year. For more information on the submission process, please review the Submission Process Page. For information on deadlines, please review the Submission Deadlines Page.
These forms are for use by Harvard investigators. If you are a non-Harvard investigator looking for forms to submit in order to obtain documentation of ESCRO approval for the use of HUES lines you are ordering, please contact your own ESCRO.
The Harvard ESCRO Committee's policies are based on the National Academies of Sciences ("NAS") Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research and the International Society for Stem Cell Research ("ISSCR") Guidelines for the Conduct of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research and are consistent with Massachusetts law 111L.
The following lines have been registered with the Harvard University ESCRO. Harvard investigators who wish to use any of the lines listed below do not need to re-register them with the ESCRO; however, they do need to obtain ESCRO protocol approval for the specific use of the line(s). Work may not commence until the ESCRO has approved the stem cell use protocol.