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Today's Message

Posted: Monday, October 22, 2018

Top Five Things to Know About...the Institutional Review Board (IRB) Process

Top five things to know about the Institutional Review Board (IRB) process:

  1. All researchers (student, faculty, or staff) and anyone supervising student researchers must complete ethics training before receiving IRB approval.
  2. The SUNY RF Pre-Award and Compliance System (PACS) is a multiyear collaborative project implemented through the Huron Research Suite to support principal investigators, students, and compliance and research administration staff members with business processes. The IRB module provides a streamlined way for researchers to create and submit protocols for studies involving human subjects. The work instructions and templates are located on Sponsored Programs website. A revised template for IRB submissions was created in June 2017. Please use the new version.
  3. All protocols are submitted electronically except the Department Level Review. The student (or faculty member, in the case of laboratory assignments) completes the Department Level Review template and submits this to the departmental representative to the IRB.
  4. Faculty and staff members log in to the SUNY RF Pre-Award and Compliance System (PACS) with their campus usernames and passwords, and students must register for a SUNY PACS account.
  5. When all the required fields are completed and the documents are uploaded, click the FINISH button at either the top or bottom right of the last SmartForm page to be redirected to the study workspace, and then click the SUBMIT button on the left side of the workspace. Researchers must click both the FINISH and the SUBMIT buttons in order to submit the study to the IRB. Please allow at least two weeks after the submission date for the review process. 

The “Top Five Things to Know About…” series is sponsored by the Teaching and Learning Center. If you’d like to contribute to the series, please e-mail John Draeger, TLC director.

Submitted by: John D. Draeger
Also appeared:
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Thursday, October 25, 2018
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