Most federal and private funding agencies will not award a grant for a research project involving human subjects until the Institutional Review Board has certified its approval. However, the University's systems allow for concurrent processing of the human subjects review and the management review of a proposal. This form contains a number of assurances, one of which pertains to involving human subjects. Ideally, all research proposals would be reviewed and approved to the IRB before the proposal is submitted for external funding. When this is the case, investigators should affirm the approval on the BA23 by specifying the date that the IRB approval was given.
Concurrent processing is more common.
The proposal should be submitted to the IRB in time for a decision before the proposal due date. The BA23, indicating that IRB review is pending and providing the date the project was submitted for review, may be started. When IRB approval is granted, the RSPP database is updated with the approval date at the time the investigator is notified. The investigator is then responsible for notifying the sponsor when IRB approval is received. Again, the investigator is responsible for notifying the sponsor when IRB approval is received.