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
January 2010
The University of Iowa Institutional Review Board (IRB) and Human Subjects Office (HSO) are pleased to announce a variety of training and educational opportunities for investigators, delegates and research team members. Click here to see HawkIRB Training Sessions for IRB-02 (Social/Behavioral/Educational) Researchers and the schedule of presentations on other topics, such as Conducting Research Off-Campus, The IRB Review Process, Reportable Events, and Consent/Assent Documents and Process.
November 2009
NEW! WIRB is now electronic! Please review the WIRB webpage here for more information.
October 2009
Revisions to the Cash Handling Policy 10/29/09 - UI Accounting Services has implemented changes to the Cash Handling policy to address questions that have come from the Research Community. The policy changes are reflected at http://www.uiowa.edu/~cashhand/policies.html under the sections “Policy Statement”-first paragraph, “Who Should Know This Policy”-first paragraph, and a new section at the bottom of the page. The procedure/template required to be completed and returned per the instructions on page 2 is at http://www.uiowa.edu/~cashhand/forms.html, bottom of the page, hyperlink “Research Subject Compensation template”.
Effective Immediately - In accordance with a directive from the University of Iowa Office of Internal Audit, all NEW HawkIRB research projects submitted 10/1/09 or later that includes a form of research subject compensation using cash, check, or cash equivalent (Cash or cash equivalent is defined as coin, currency, checks, money orders, credit cards, accounts receivable charges, electronic funds transfers, tokens, gift cards, parking tickets and/or stamps) will now require documentation of an University of Iowa Accounting Services approval of a cash handling policy. It will be a required document which can be attached to the attachments page of the New HawkIRB application prior to submission and review by the Human Subjects Office. Please follow this link for additional information.
August 2009
NEW! The Record of Consent can now be used on WIRB studies! View here for more information!
NEW! The Human Subjects Office is happy to announce the launch of the new Community Based Research (CBR) process here!
July 2009
NEW! WIRB Form A and Form B forms have been revised to include the UIHC Billing Compliance Office. See the WIRB page on the HSO Website for more information by going here.
May 2009
IRB News Mailing List and IRB Advisor - New!
NEW! An IRB List Serve and access to IRB Advisor! This mailing will be used to send a monthly IRB Advisor newsletter, as well as, communicate other announcements, education materials, and news! IRB Advisor is a publication of AHC Media. This monthly newsletter contains articles on issues facing IRBs and human subjects researchers. To find out more, click here.
April 2009
PLEASE NOTE: There has been a revised Guide for Human Subjects Research and UI IRB SOP added to the HSO website. A tracked changes version of both have been added for your review by clicking here. You can also access the new Guide for Human Subjects Research and the SOP by clicking on the link in the column on the left.
*** Attention Mac OS X.4 “Tiger” and OS X.5 “Leopard” users***
All Mac users: The Human Subjects Office has been receiving numerous calls related to .rtf documents and Mac users not able to view the IRB stamp or save .rtf files into HawkIRB. Please review the following fix related to .rtf format templates used in HawkIRB by clicking here. If you continue to have problems after using this suggested fix, please contact the Human Subjects Office.
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