Institutional Review Board – Charles River Campus
Open Office Hours: Beginning on Monday, June 27th the IRB office will be holding open office hours. Please feel free to come to our office on Mondays and Thursdays from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm with a brown bag lunch and any questions that you may have for us! Click here for IRB contact information.
Educational Presentations: Are you interested in having an IRB staff member come and give a PowerPoint presentation or talk to your department? Please contact our office to determine availability.
Time Required for Reviews
If your review has a deadline or specific time constraint, please give yourself (and the IRB) enough lead-time to complete your review before your deadline.
Approximate time from submission to IRB decision:
For new protocols, progress reports, and protocol amendments that modify the research–4-6 weeks
For amendments that do not modify research (e.g., adding new research staff)–4 working days
These turnaround times assume that investigators respond promptly to IRB queries. For reviews that require full-board attention, turnaround could be affected by the timing of full-board meetings. Please visit our meeting date guidance page for more information.
For more information on these figures, please click here.
Please submit your protocol to irb@bu.edu or to our address: Institutional Review Board, Room 157, 25 Buick Street, Boston, MA 02215. Please be sure to email your informed consent document(s) in electronic word document format.
Welcome
This is the home page of the Charles River Campus Institutional Review Board (IRB). The purpose of the IRB is to assure that research involving human subjects is conducted ethically and in a way that protects the rights and safety of the subjects.
On this website, we have provided the application forms that investigators need and instructional documents to explain how they should be used. There are links with information for students who wish to conduct human research studies. If you can’t find what you are looking for or if any of these documents are unclear, you should always feel free to call the CRC IRB office (617-358-6115).
If you are an investigator with an appointment on the Charles River Campus you should apply to the CRC IRB. If your study involves FDA regulated research you should apply to the BU Medical Campus/Boston Medical Center IRB.