IRB functions and operations.

CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 6

(a) In order to fulfill the requirements of this policy each IRB shall: (1) Have access to meeting space and sufficient staff to support the IRB's review and recordkeeping duties; (2) Prepare and maintain a current list of the IRB members identified by name; earned degrees; representative capacity; indications of experience such as board certifications or licenses sufficient to describe each member's chief anticipated contributions to IRB deliberations; and any employment or other relationship between each member and the institution, for example, full-time employee, part-time employee, member of governing panel or board, stockholder, paid or unpaid consultant; (3) Establish and follow written procedures for: (i) Conducting its initial and continuing review of research and for reporting its findings and actions to the investigator and the institution; (ii) Determining which projects require review more often than annually and which projects need verification from sources other than the investigators that no material changes have occurred since previous IRB review; and (iii) Ensuring prompt reporting to the IRB of proposed changes in a research activity, and for ensuring that investigators will conduct the research activity in accordance with the terms of the IRB approval until any proposed changes have been reviewed and approved by the IRB, except when necessary to eliminate apparent immediate hazards to the subject. (4) Establish and follow written procedures for ensuring pro

official document · source cfr-2024 · id 6:§ 46.108