The Office of the IRB (OIRB) has received some feedback from our research community and would like to provide some updates on two IRAP processes: (1) flagging submissions that require "Just in time" review and (2) identifying the IRB staff member to whom a submission has been assigned.  We have also made a change to the requirement to have protocol titles be concordant with or include grant titles.

1.  Just-in-Time (JIT) Grant Submissions – The OIRB recognizes the need for investigators to indicate when a protocol is being submitted in support of a JIT grant application.  When submitting a JIT protocol in IRAP, add the words “JUST IN TIME” to the beginning of the protocol title when you enter the title into IRAP.  This does not need to be included on your forms, only the IRAP record itself.  This provides the IRB staff a mechanism to be alerted to the JIT submission when it is received.  The OIRB staff will remove those words from the record in IRAP before issuing approval.
2.  Previously, there was no way for investigators or research staff to identify the OIRB staff reviewer assigned to their submission without contacting the office.  We have opened up the Submissions folder under Management to the protocol staff.  If you navigate to a particular submission, you will now be able to see the General folder, which will list the OIRB staff reviewer (noted as the "Coordinator" in IRAP).
3.  The OIRB has previously required that if a protocol title did not match the grant title, then the grant title needed to be added in parentheses after the protocol title.  With linkages in IRAP directly to OSP awards, the OIRB will no longer have this requirement.  If a protocol title is not concordant with a grant title, we will not require it to be added in parentheses.