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Reliance Agreements with IRBs of Other Institutions Updated March 13, 2022Irb Authorization Agreement • February 21st, 2022
There are situations when Clark University researchers are involved in multi-site research or collaborative projects with investigators at other institutions. An IRB Authorization Agreement (IAA) is a special agreement between two institutions that are engaged in human subjects research to establish a Single IRB (or sIRB) with review authority. An IAA allows an institution with a Federalwide Assurance (FWA) to extend the applicability of its FWA to cover investigators at another institution. In practice, this means an institution’s IRB will be the IRB of Record which reviews the study. These agreements help to minimize regulatory burden on the IRB review and approval process by limiting the IRB review to one institution. When signing the IAA, one institution is designated the lead IRB or sIRB of Record. The IRB that relies on the review and oversight of another IRB is said to be “ceding” or delegating oversight to the lead IRB or sIRB.
