Institutional Review Board
The University of Utah Institutional Review Board (IRB) is a committee designed to ensure that research involving human participants meets federal regulatory requirements and the high ethical standards of the University and international research community. The IRB is made up of four panels with 20 to 25 members that meet each week. The IRB reviews all research that involves humans conducted at the University of Utah, Primary Children's Medical Center, the Salt Lake VA, and Shriners Childrens Hospital of Salt Lake City. You must contact the IRB before beginning any research project that involves humans at these institutions.
Some research projects do not require review by a convened panel, and the IRB will typically turn these around in three weeks or less (most social and behavioral and/or main campus research fits in this category). If a project must be reviewed by the convened panel, the IRB will typically turn it around in 5 weeks or less (most clinical trials involving experimental drugs or devices conducted on the health sciences campus). There are also some research projects that are exempt from IRB review and oversight, and these are approved very quickly.
In general, plan to submit a new research project to the IRB at least one month before you intend to begin.
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