2023 News Archive

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The University of Utah IRB will be enforcing our Single IRB Review fees policy in a new way beginning April 1, 2024. We ask that you help to share this with researchers in your department/division as we prepare to make this change in practice. For studies that cannot pay the expected Single IRB Review fees throughout the course of the study, the IRB will bill the study’s department for these fees.

Please join us in welcoming two new members of the IRB staff team. 

Artificial intelligence (AI) is technology that is changing the landscape of higher education in terms of teaching and research. For research activities, policies and guidelines about the use of AI, specifically in terms of writing and reviewing manuscripts, papers, and grant proposals, are evolving across federal agencies, journals, and academic institutions. It is up to investigators, project staff, and students to be aware of the applicable policies and guidelines surrounding the use of AI programs and tools, and question how reliable they are for use in the research environment.

Utah is at the frontier of consumer privacy, becoming the first U.S. state to pass a law focused on social media privacy rights for children and the fourth state to enact comprehensive consumer data protection legislation.

IRB fees will be changing effective at the beginning of the fiscal year. The changes will affect industry-sponsored new studies as well as SIRB fees for multi-site studies.

All new, prospective studies with participant interaction conducted by University of Utah investigators within the state of Utah submitted after July 1, 2023, must adhere to a new policy to receive IRB approval: "Inclusion of People Who Speak Spanish in Research".

Please join us in welcoming a new Administrator and two new Coordinators to the IRB staff team.