Welcome! We are glad that you are here, and are excited to collaborate with you on your future human subjects research projects.
If you have any questions about getting started, you want to brainstorm ways to tackle your human subjects research agenda, or you just want to get to know us, schedule a chat with one of our analysts today!
Before You Start
Make sure you have completed CITI training and your affiliation has been transferred to USU. All researchers who interact with participants or access their identifiable data must first be certified via CITI. CITI’s Human Research Curriculum certification needs to be maintained for the duration of all human subjects research, and must be renewed every three years in order to stay current.
If you have completed training in the past, check that your CITI training is still up to date. If it has expired within the last year, you can take the Refresher Course. If your CITI Training has expired for longer than a year, retake the Basic Course.
All investigators on a protocol (including student researchers) must have valid CITI training before a protocol can be reviewed. Check the status of your team members' training!
New Faculty from another Institution
Are you new faculty at USU? If you completed CITI training elsewhere, your courses can carry over! Transfer your affiliation to USU and register for the Basic Course. From there, you will see which modules you still need to complete before beginning Human Subjects Research.
If you have open Human Subjects Research protocols at your old institution, there is no real way to transfer an IRB Approval. The role of PI on a human subjects research protocol must be maintained by someone at the institution which granted the approval.
If you would like to remain the PI on your projects, you will need to submit the research project to the USU IRB as a new protocol. For more details on this process, check out our About Kuali page.
A second option is to delegate the role of PI to someone else at your previous institution. This would allow you to maintain your open protocols at your previous institution and continue working under that existing approval. If you were able to identify another faculty member at your previous institution who is willing to maintain oversight of your active studies there, you could amend your active protocols to designate a new PI. If you wanted to, you could remain an investigator on the project, but you would have to be listed as a non-[Institution’s name] researcher. Then, we could complete a Reliance Agreement with your previous institution to cede our review of the project to their IRB.
AAHRPP Accreditation
Utah State University’s Human Research Protection Program, which includes its Institutional Review Board, is fully accredited by the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs. AAHRPP Accreditation means that Utah State University implements many best practices to ensure the health, safety, and welfare of participants who contribute to our institution’s research. For new faculty, that sometimes corresponds to unfamiliar review standards – not harder or more difficult ones. We’d love to meet with you (see Consultations, above!) to discuss your project in more depth and how your research can be supported by these best practices.
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