A situation that calls for the one time use of a test article, a medical intervention which falls outside the standard of practice, or a medical condition for which there is currently no available HIC approved research protocol, may apply for this special review by the HIC chair or his or her designee. The HIC office gives emergency use protocols priority and makes every effort to provide approval within 24 hours. Please note that the IRB can approve the enrollment of only one subject under emergency use provisions for a specific protocol. Whatever type of review you seek, if human subjects are to be included, you must have HIC approval before you begin your research. Please contact the HIC office personnel at 577-1628 for further information.
New investigators are important to the future of biomedical research.
For the January - May 1998 receipt dates for grant applications, new and amended R29 applications will be accepted but, in view of the new policy to be implemented in June 1998, new investigators may want to submit these applications as R01s. That is their choice, and they can make their most informed choice by talking with program staff in the relevant Institute or Center. New applications, even when derived from ideas presented in a previous application, are not accompanied by information about any previous reviews of applications by that investigator. Starting with the June 1998 grant application receipt date, no R29 applications will be accepted, whether new or amended. An investigator who wishes to amend an R29 application may either submit an amended application as an R01, or submit a new R01 application using ideas derived from the previous R29.