Master Common Reciprocal Institutional Review Board Authorization AgreementMaster Common Reciprocal Institutional Review Board Authorization Agreement • September 15th, 2020
Contract Type FiledSeptember 15th, 2020The SMART IRB Master Common Reciprocal Institutional Review Board Authorization Agreement (termed the SMART IRB Agreement or the Agreement) was launched in 2016 after iterative development and extensive collaboration with government agencies, academic medical centers (including all Clinical and Translational Science (CTSA) hubs and many of their affiliates), and industry partners. To date, the SMART IRB Agreement has almost 800 signatories, and the SMART IRB platform provides a robust online reliance system (ORS) to support reliance requests, numerous resources to train and educate the regulatory and investigator community, including a publicly-available learning center, and a highly functional harmonization steering committee (HSC) facilitating the alignment of policies and processes related to single IRB review.