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IRB Bulletin: July 2025

Check out our bulletin for July! News includes a new guidance document about Maintaining and Providing Electronic Research Records and a new CIRTification Renewal course available for external researchers!

IRB Bulletin: June 2025

In this month's bulletin, we are officially announcing Essentials of Software as a Medical Device & Clinical Decision Support Systems, a new course in CITI. We highly recommend taking it if you work with medical devices including apps and software. Also, come join our upcoming brown bag about records retention and get all your questions answered about how to keep your paper trails in order.

Events

IRB BROWN BAG | Reliance Demystified: Local Context Forms, Welcom...

July 16, 12:00 PM
Please join us on Wednesday, July 16, for our monthly IRB Brown Bag Session led by the IRB Office Reliance Team. This se...

eIRB+

eIRB+ is Northwestern University’s electronic system for human research projects. Research studies requiring IRB review and approval must be submitted through eIRB+.

eIRB+
Getting Started

Getting Started

Before preparing your application please read through the following steps to assess whether IRB review is required and, if so, how to complete the eIRB+ application.
Getting Started
Complaints

Concerns or Complaints?

If you have a concerns about a research study, have questions about your rights as a research participant, or would like to file a compliant - please contact us.
Concerns or Complaints?

Training

Northwestern University requires all individuals involved in the conduct of human research to complete human research protections training and to re-certify their training every 3 years.
Training