Welcome
The Human Subjects Office (HSO) was established by the Vice President for Research to provide administrative support for the University of Iowa Institutional Review Boards. An Institutional Review Board is a group of individuals charged with reviewing proposed research involving human subjects to ensure the protection of those subjects and compliance with federal human subjects regulations. The University of Iowa has two such review boards, each consisting of faculty, staff, and representatives from the Iowa City community.
Mission
The mission of the University of Iowa Institutional Review Boards is to assure that the rights and welfare of human subjects are adequately protected in research.
News
Updated Investigator's Guide 8/1/08.
As discussed in the Policy Change Educational Sessions, here is a clean copy of the UI Investigator's guide incorporating the new procedures for researchers. If you prefer to view the revisions, here is a track changes version. Also to the left of this information under "UI Investigator's Guide" is the newly revised version. HawkIRB will now include NEW templated documents for the Record of Informed Consent and various recruitment material examples for researchers. The informed consent document template will also have changes incorporated when it is downloaded from the HawkIRB attachments page. These template revisions were included in the items that were reviewed at the Policy Change Educational Sessions earlier this month. Copies of this handout are available here. If you have any questions related to the new policy changes, please call the Human Subjects Office at 335-6564.
Please note! Effective Monday, July 14, 2008.
The WIRB informed consent template has been revised. The UI Human Subjects Office/IRB/CTO and WIRB have agreed to remove the word "proven" from our informed consent template under the research related injury section. This reflects ongoing concerns from our study sponsors with regard to the use of the word "proven" in our currently approved template for research related injury. Please call the Human Subjects Office at 335-6564 if you have questions.
**Updated June 27, 2008**
The Human Subjects Office was deemed a non essential unit during the flooding of Iowa City/Coralville. As a result, the office was closed the week of June 9-13. The HSO has resumed relatively normal business hours. We ask for your patience during this time to allow HSO staff to catch up from the downtime. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Please contact the Human Subjects Office at 335-6564 if you have any questions. Thank you.
Notice of session rescheduling for IRB Policy issues:
The Human Subjects Office will be offering three educational sessions beginning on July 1, 2008 to reflect new IRB policy issues that will be effective August 1, 2008. Please look here for additional information and how to sign up for these sessions. Seating is limited.
Please note! Any protocols that involve VAMC patients, records, or if any part of the protocol is conducted on VAMC premises, it will need to be moved from IRB-01 to IRB-03. A HawkIRB modification will need to be completed and submitted by June 2, 2008 making the change from IRB-01 to IRB-03. If your continuing review is due within two months of when you submit your modification, you may submit a combined Modification\Continuing Review. If VAMC resources are no longer used, a modification will be required to remove VAMC from the HawkIRB application.
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