IRB

Hand Outs

Who has IRB?? 

Why IRB

Here is one of the reasons why IRBs are important, although in this case it referes to tissue samples, not student work.

A UniversityTokyo team has retracted a published research paper because it apparently failed to obtain informed consent from tissue donors or approval from an institutional review board.  

Exempt vs. Expedited 

Human subject research vs. data from human subjects  research

How to get started

Talk to some who has one  done one sucessfully, get their submission

Need

NSF  NSF-IRB Info http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/human.jsp

Goverment grants

Institution responsibility