IRB Consulting Hours – Monroe Park Campus
The VCU Human Research Protection Program is pleased to begin offering open IRB consulting hours, hosted by our colleagues on the Monroe Park Campus. The first of these open consulting hours will be hosted by the L. Douglas Wilder School. IRB staff will be available for drop-in consultations with faculty and students from any school […]
Learn About External IRB Review at the One VCU Clinical Research Teams Meeting
Are you participating in multi-site research that requires external IRB review? Stacy West and John Horigan will be presenting on everything you need to know about external IRB submissions (reliance agreements) at the monthly meeting of the One VCU Clinical Research Teams, on Tuesday, February 11th. Please see below for information on how to join […]
Full Board IRB Review Process Change
Beginning with submissions scheduled for review at the November 20th IRB meeting, submissions will first undergo a staff only pre-review process. The pre-review by staff is meant to do three things: Ensure completeness and accuracy of the information provided in the submission before it is sent to reviewers. Provide PIs with an opportunity to make […]
IRB Review of Research Staff Qualifications
Effective August 1, 2019, Principal Investigators are required to list all key personnel on the personnel page of the RAMS-IRB SmartForm. Investigators may add or remove research staff who are not key personnel without submitting an amendment to the IRB. Only changes to key personnel require an amendment. For the purposes of submission in RAMS-IRB, “key personnel” […]
Updated WPPs Posted
The IRB’s Written Policies and Procedures (WPPs) have been updated online at https://research.vcu.edu/human_research/guidance.htm. Investigators are reminded to use the single PDF document that contains all of the VCU IRB’s WPPs. This single file is meant to serve as a resource to the VCU research community while each policy is individually updated on the VCU IRB WPP […]
New Resources for Filling out the Future Sharing Plan Page
New resources about the Future Sharing Plan page of the smartform are posted on the Help Tutorials and Videos section of the IRB website (from the Researchers page, click the link for Help Tutorials): Webinar Recording This 25-minute webinar (presented by John Horigan and Nina Exner on 4/2/2019) gives a overview of why we created this page and what […]
You Can Now Use Your VCU eID to Log Into CITI Via Single Sign On
What is Single Sign On? Single Sign On (SSO) is a process that allows you to use your VCU eID and password, instead of a username and password created by CITI Program. You can log into the CITI Program after completing a login at your site without any additional authentication. How do I use Single […]
VCU IRB is seeking feedback about non-medical research interventions
The VCU Office of Research Subjects Protection is seeking to engage with faculty, staff, and students across VCU about a new category of exempt research related to benign behavioral interventions. Revisions to the Department of Health and Human Services federal regulations (45 CFR 46) for the protection of human subjects in research went into effect on […]