INVESTIGATOR’S RESPONSIBILITY TO
COMMUNICATE WITH THE IRB

I.      Completed Project 

Once you have completed your research project, you must send a letter to the Chair of the CUW Institutional Review Board summarizing your project.  Information in this letter should include the following:

 

• Title of the project and investigators;
• Statement about the project status, i.e., finished as planned or not completed (give reasons for not completing if this is the case such as lack of funding);
• Number of subjects who participated;
• Any adverse events such as injury to participants during data collection;
• Where the data will be stored. 

II.      Continued Review

If your project is not yet completed and you would like to continue beyond the one year approval from the IRB, you may submit a request to continue the project by filling out a a one-page description summarizing your project’s progress to date to the IRB chair.  Information in the summary should include the following:

 

• Title of the project and investigators;
• Statement about the progress of the project; is progress according to plan?
• Number of subjects studied to date;
• Any adverse events such as injury to participants during data collection;
• Any changes to the research project such as key personnel, procedures, instruments or other.
• Estimated length of time to study completion.

Note: Continued Review does not apply to projects that qualified as exempt from full board review.