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Our Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) and Insitutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) will begin using IRBManager for all submissions in the next few months. Since the software will no longer be for IRB submissions only, we’re tweaking the name a bit to be more inclusive: IRBManager will become I-Manager.

Once their electronic submissions go live, you’ll also see options for beginning Biosafety or IACUC new studies. Make sure you choose an IRB new study submission.

Otherwise, nothing is changing, and you’ll continue to submit your new studies, amendments, etc. the same way as before.

This spring, the IRB office will again offer several different types of training:

IRB Basics: An introduction to the IRB process and tips for your first IRB submission.

Post-Approval Review: What to expect if your study is selected for a post-approval review.

International Research: What you need to consider if you are doing research outside the US.

Informed Consent Workshop: This will be in two parts. Part 1 will focus on the informed consent document. Part 2 will focus on the informed consent process.

Classroom training (by request): An IRB office staff member will come to your classroom to conduct a session on a topic of your choice.

For more details and to register for a session, visit: /irb/training/register-trainings/

We are rolling out a number of changes in the IRB submission and review process. Within the past year, both NIH and the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) have made significant changes, including issuing new federal regulations (known as the Common Rule). Most of the changes to our processes are a direct result of these new regulations, although we took this opportunity to improve some processes in other ways as well.

For those of you who were not able to attend Michael Zimmer’s talk Addressing Conceptual Gaps in Big Data Research Ethics on October 27, the recording is now available on our website, on the page Online self-paced training.