Category: IRB
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Emory IRB Membership Drive!
Do you wish the IRB could review clinical studies more quickly? Are you frustrated when your study cannot be placed on an earlier meeting? Then please consider volunteering to join the IRB! We can only get studies reviewed if we have members with adequate expertise in attendance at our meetings. Some studies need to be…
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Upcoming Emory IRB Webinars!
The IRB presents a new webinar on the second Thursday of every month during the academic calendar year. The presentations start at 12 pm and typically last about 30 minutes. Following the live presentation, the recording of the webinar and Q&A session will be archived for easy access. Every webinar has its own survey to…
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eIRB System Updated and Improved
The eIRB system underwent a needed update on November 6th. This update was Phase 1 of a project to improve login and account creation, and to update departments and user accounts in eIRB. Specifically, you will observe these changes: The login screen looks different, and more like the login screens for other Emory systems, such…
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IRB Holiday Meeting Schedule
The IRB will have compressed meeting schedules in both November and December to accommodate the holidays. Study teams are encouraged to get potential full board submissions to the IRB promptly to avoid any delays. The final meeting in November will be on 11/18, and the final meeting in December will be on 12/16. From the…
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Reminder Regarding IRB and IACUC approvals
Written By: Larry Iten, Rebecca Rousselle, Holly Sommers Office of Research Administration As most investigators know very well, federal awarding agencies, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), require that grantee institutions verify the status of Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval for any grant involving human subjects research and Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee…
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Changes to IRB Help Desk Hours
The Institutional Review Board (IRB) now provides help desk sessions on Mondays from 10:30am to 3pm, and on Tuesday through Friday from 10am to 3pm. During these hours, a representative from the IRB will provide in large group or one-to-one setting information on issues related to human subjects research. A help desk appointment can be…
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Office of Research Administration Newsletter’s New Web Address
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in Announcements, Audit, Cayuse Tips, COI, Compass, Compliance, Cost Transfer, ERAZ, IACUC, IRB, OCR, ORA, ORC, OSP, OTT, RAS, RGC, TrainingIn 2013 the Office of Research Administration Newsletter was transitioned to an online format using one of Emory’s web tools. This year, we were asked to move our newsletter to a new institutional tool. This task is complete. The July/August 2014 edition of Emory’s Research Administration Newsletter is available at: https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/ranews. Please update any bookmarks…
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Welcome Emory's New IRB Director
The Office of Research Administration is pleased to announce that Rebecca Rousselle is the new Director of Emory’s Institutional Review Board (IRB) as of September 2013. Rebecca has worked five years with Emory’s IRB. Most recently she stepped into the Interim Director position following the resignation of Sarah Putney from the directorship in April of…
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NIH Policy Guidance on Changes to Human Subjects Research and Delayed Onset Awards
On August 2, 2012, the National Institutes of Health issued notices containing policy guidance on two important topics: NIH prior approval requirements for changes involving human subjects during the course of active awards and NIH prior approval requirements for awards initially submitted without definitive plans for human subjects involvement (also called Delayed Onset Awards). For…