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4. Who needs to obtain IRB approval? DePaul University is committed to the protection of the rights of human participants in any and all research that in any sense is conducted by persons officially affiliated with the University. Thus, IRB review is required of all such research involving human participants, most especially any that poses potential threats or injury of any sort to the participants. This specifically includes, but is not limited to:

Principal Investigators who are seeking either external funds (from federal, state, or local governments, private foundations, etc.) or internal funds (from URC, LA&S Summer Research, etc.) for research projects that involve human participants.
Students collecting data from human participants for honors’ or graduate theses
Classroom instructors who have their students collect data from human participants for course projects.

Note: Since October 1, 2000 federal funding agencies have required that investigators provide a description of the training in the protection of human participants that was completed for each individual identified as "key personnel" in the proposed research. Key personnel include all individuals responsible for the design and conduct of the study. The description of training must be submitted in a cover letter with their grant and contract applications. NIH has indicated that taking the NIH on-line training module http://ohsr.od.nih.gov/cbt would be sufficient training at this time. Social and behavioral science investigators may wish to take the training procedure on-line at the University of Minnesota www.research.umn.edu/consent/ or at the University of Wisconsin www.rsp.wisc.edu/compliance/index.html

The DPU-IRB encourages all researchers to complete this training and requires members of LRBs or the IRB to complete the training at http://ohsr.od.nih.gov/irb_cbt