ORI is pleased to announce that the streamlining feature promised in the April 17, 2018 announcement has been put into production sooner than anticipated!  

As of May 2, 2018, study personnel who have been delegated edit authorization (“DP”) of the E-IRB application can perform ‘submission’ tasks on behalf of the PI as needed.  

In summary, on behalf of the Principal Investigator, “DP’s” have the capability to:

• “Send for Signatures” (send the E-IRB application to other assurance statement signees like the Department Authorization, Faculty Advisor, “Review by Other”);
• Submit Initial Review (IR), Modification Request (MR), or Continuation Review (CR);
• Submit responses to requested revisions/additional information; and
• Submit “Other Reviews”.

The PI is still required to:

• Log-in to E-IRB and verify his/her identity with Link Blue ID and password in order to complete the PI Assurance Statement task, which now includes an additional statement for attestation to his/her awareness and responsibility for accuracy of all materials submitted to the IRB for review;  
• Submit study closure requests.

NOTE: At this time there is no automated email to notify the PI when his/her Assurance Statement is ready to be signed. This is an additional service that is being taken into consideration for building in E-IRB.  In the meantime, ORI requests your patience until a determination can be made about what point(s) in the work flow such email notification should be triggered, and subsequent configuration of the system to generate the automated email notification.