The following University of Utah Institutional Review Board SOPs were reviewed as part of a scheduled sunset review procedure. As a reminder, all IRB SOPs are also being updated as part of a harmonization project to improve ease of reading and understanding. Please take a moment to review these SOPs as a refresher and part […]
Read MoreThe IRB Executive Committee approved a policy change regarding the use of surrogate consent with a legally authorized representative (LAR). Surrogate consent is allowed in the research context for research studies that involve participants with cognitive impairment, or lack of decision-making capacity. Previously, the University of Utah IRB only allowed for surrogate consent to be […]
Read MoreThe following University of Utah Institutional Review Board SOPs were reviewed as part of a scheduled sunset review procedure. As a reminder, all IRB SOPs are also being updated as part of a harmonization project to improve ease of reading and understanding. Please take a moment to review these SOPs as a refresher and part […]
Read MoreThe 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. What is changing? For studies that cannot pay the expected Single IRB […]
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