- Federally funded studies at grant stage
- All Other Studies
- Considerations for serving as the IRB of record
- Resources
Federally funded studies at grant stage
You will be asked to schedule a call to discuss your study. You will be emailed after the call with all information needed for your grant application or instructions on how to pursue using other IRBs as the reviewing IRB.
Examples of the most common federal funders: NIH (all institutes), DoD, DoJ, AHRQ, CDC, etc.
All other studies
We ask that you fill out this form prior to submitting your initial review/modification to the UCSF IRB whenever possible to prevent inefficiencies in the IRB process.
Further instructions will be provided after IRB receipt of the Request Form.
Considerations for serving as the IRB of record
When agreeing to serve as the IRB record, UCSF will review the study for all sites that are engaged in research. UCSF generally does not provide IRB review for sites that do not meet the federal engagement criteria, even when the site’s local policies are more restrictive than federal requirements.
The UCSF IRB uses IREx to coordinate with external sites. Relying sites will be asked to obtain an IREx account.
All relying sites must obtain any and all applicable local ancillary committee approvals (for example, Radiation Safety Committee). The UCSF IRB will not conduct the IRB review for sites that cannot secure ancillary committee reviews. The UCSF HRPP is unable to facilitate any such reviews
Resources
- Reliance Request Form - This form is used when a study team would like to request that a collaborating site(s) use the UCSF IRB as its IRB of Record.