Please review this document when preparing your protocol to make sure the appropriate documentation has been included in your submission. We hope that by providing this outline, the required information is present, the selection of subjects is equitable, the necessary signatures have been obtained and the number of tabled protocols can be reduced. It is essential that proposals for all research involving human beings be submitted to the IRB Chairperson. This includes research that may be eligible for exempted review and expedited review, as well as full review. CLAW meets twice a year to conduct an on-site inspection of the facilities where vertebrates are housed and to evaluate all active and proposed protocols for animal use.
Approved protocols have a life of three years, and can be continued.