Guidance
Mar 13, 2020

Urgent Amendment Procedures

Update March 16, 2020: The process outlined below for urgent Amendments is being temporarily suspended until further notice. IRBMED has published new procedures and a workflow diagram for time-sensitive and urgent modifications to active research...
Policies
Feb 3, 2020

Statement of Practice: Flexibility Initiatives

The University of Michigan's federalwide assurance with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) allows the IRB flexibility in its application of federal regulations to studies not federally funded or FDA-regulated. Click here for PDF...
Policies
Jul 1, 2019

Grants Processing Deadline

The Medical School Grant Services & Analysis (GS&A) Office requests that all proposals be submitted to the office ten (10) business days prior to the sponsor's proposal deadline. This includes the cumulative time needed for both the Medical...
Guidance
Jun 25, 2019

SINGLE IRB AND MULTI-SITE RESEARCH (MSR)

Multi-site research (MSR) means that multiple participating sites are involved in supporting the conduct of the same research protocol. However, not all participating sites may perform the same functions to support the conduct of the research...
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Guidance
Apr 9, 2019

Elements and Uses of a Repository

A research repository is defined as a collection of data/biospecimens that have been collected and stored with the intention of using the materials for future research , either by the investigator who collected them or by sharing the materials with...
Policies
Mar 11, 2019

Statement of Practice: PEERRS Certification Requirements

This document replaces the August 22, 2018 "PEERRS Certification Requirements" document. Click here for PDF version. Note: It is the responsibility of the PI to enforce appropriate human subjects protection education for study team roles where...
Guidance
Jan 16, 2019

Transition to 2018 Regulations

On January 21, 2019 most provisions of the Revised Common Rule become fully effective ("Effective Date” and "general compliance date"; single IRB-of-Record provisions will go into effect in January 2020). As of that date, the eResearch system...
Templates
Jan 15, 2019

Standard Informed Consent Template

Effective December 3, 2018, the pre-transition informed consent template is no longer in use. All new informed consent documents must be based on the revised Common Rule informed consent template below.
Policies
Aug 28, 2018

Statement of Practice: Interpretation of Expedited Category (8)

Expedited Category (8) pertains to the continuing review of research, regardless of its previously determined risk level. The IRB member performing expedited review under category 8 must determine that the ongoing and future research activity...
Policies
Aug 28, 2018

Statement of Practice: Interpretation of Expedited Category (5)

Expedited Category (5) pertains to research involving data/materials that have been collected previously for research or non-research purposes and/or will be collected solely for non-research purposes, provided that certain criteria are met. Click...
Templates
Jul 20, 2018

Foreign Language Short Forms

Investigators are responsible for understanding and following the IRBMED Guidance for non-English speaking subjects before using the forms below. Please note, the instructions on this page are for filling out the form, NOT the guidance for using a...

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