Category Archives: Institutional Profile

Updated Feature: Modified text on IREx Setup 

FRL, Institutional Profile, November 2024

On the IREx Setup, Review & Submit tab, text modified from…  

  • “The reviewing IRB is NOT participating in the study” to “The reviewing IRB is NOT the lead site” if the sIRB selected ‘No’ to the question, “Is the Lead Site also at the Reviewing IRB Institution?”  
  • “Local context collected by CIRB” to “Local context collected by sIRB” if selected, ‘Sites will provide consents for sIRB review (e.g., using a template) OR study will not have consents.’ to the question “How are sites’ consent forms being handled?” 

New Feature: The Institutional Profile (IP) now available for CSV download 

FRL, Institutional Profile, October 2024

The Institutional Profile (IP) is available to export as CSV format both on the public website “Participating Institutions” page and within the IREx portal on the “Find Other Site” page. To download a CSV file of ALL responses from ALL IREx Participating Institutions, click Export Institutional Profiles (IP) and either Export IP Labels (all questions and answers written out as they appear on the IP) or Export IP Raw (variable names and raw data). Users can also download a CSV file of IP responses from one specific institution by clicking CSV button next to that institution’s name. 

New Feature: Institutional Profiles Download is Publicly Available

FRL, Institutional Profile, October 2018, Relying HRPP, Reviewing IRB

The IREx Institutional Profiles (IPs) are now publicly available for download as a PDF on the IREx Members Page of the public website. The new PDF will include a time-stamp for the date the IP was last updated.

The IREx IP contains basic information about an institution that others can use to determine if they feel comfortable relying on, or serving as the Reviewing IRB for, that institution. In addition to creating greater transparency among HRPPs and IRBs, making the IPs publically available will facilitate and streamline the single IRB process by making information more readily available. Moreover, this fosters high-quality information sharing between institutions.