Research Compliance Network Forum - Recent Posts

FDA INDSR Review Policy

alyssapingitore — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 20:08:30 +0000

Hi all, I'm looking to learn more about how your institutions are addressing new contents of the December 2025 FDA "Investigator Responsibilities — Safety Reporting for Investigational Drugs and Devices". There is a new statement that was not previously included in the 2012 version: "The investigator should review all IND safety reports received from sponsors as a part of the investigator’s responsibility to protect the rights, safety, and welfare of trial participants (see § 312.60)."

If your institution allows the investigator of an externally sponsored study to delegate review of INDSRs to another qualified member of the study team, and the PI only personally reviews those that meet the definition for UAP, how are you interpreting this new statement?

Accessing other ICFs for Research

Sbrowning — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 22:00:21 +0000

We have a graduate student that would like to use approved informed consent forms (not signed by participants, only the consent form) to answer a research question and has requested access to these from the IRB. The consents would be from any sponsor (industry, investigator, federal etc...) Can you tell me if you have ever had such a request and how you managed the access to the ICFs?

Audit Scoring

CZwieg — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 20:30:09 +0000

Does anyone use a scoring system for audits? If so, what kind of scoring system do you use?

Answer to: Comparison of Research Regulations

LDSchaffer — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 16:10:52 +0000

We do not have anything like this but as I am training a new compliance specialist I realize how helpful this would be.

Comparison of Research Regulations

oostls — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 19:15:49 +0000

Hello,

I have been tasked with creating a document that compares FDA, ICH-GCP, and HHS research regulations. Is there anyone in the forum that has already creating such a document? If so, would you be willing to share it with me?

Thank you!

Lori Oosterman

Corewell Health Research Compliance

Answer to: Novelution, Kuali, or InfoEd users?

NealaLane — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 12:18:40 +0000

Hi Kate! Indiana University uses Kuali Protocols for our IRB platform (we use the whole suite of Kuali products across multiple divisions of IU Research). Purna would probably tell you he hates it (in comparison with the current UMich system), but it might be worth having him walk you through his reasoning. 😀 There might be some stuff he likes, but definitely some stuff that annoys him!

RE: Novelution, Kuali, or InfoEd users?

erinsibley — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 18:58:28 +0000

@sasamoke We just switched over to InfoEd at Boston College. We haven't been happy with it (and did not vote for it), but our Sponsored Programs team overruled our vote. We have completed our IRB module development and are midway through our IACUC and COI modules right now.

Novelution, Kuali, or InfoEd users?

sasamoke — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 18:39:31 +0000

Hello,

Are there any institutions using Novelution, Kuali, or InfoEd for their electronic IRB platform? The University of Michigan is currently looking at a new vendor for our IRB platform and wanted to hear from peer institutions who are using these platforms.

Wearables, phone apps, algorithms

LDSchaffer — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 14:54:37 +0000

Our IRB has seen an increase in investigator-initiated studies that are utilizing wearables, phone apps, algorithms, etc where data may be going out of the research/academic institution (e.g. Apple watch, or third-party phone app). Most studies are minimal risk, with data privacy considerations being the primary risk. We are benchmarking how institutional IRBs are reviewing similar studies and navigating any institutional requirements that may fall outside of the IRB purview (e.g. IT security or privacy/security office). We are specifically interested in how institutions navigate data privacy considerations for research studies where there will not be a contract in place with outside company (e.g. Apple, FitBit).

-What information is required for IRB review?

-How does the IRB handle the data privacy risks? e.g. disclosing in the consent form or utilizing required template language? Template language?

-Does the institution have specific requirements for reviews outside of IRB related to data privacy and security? If so, does that review occur in parallel with IRB? Before IRB review?

-Does the institution make the decision on whether the study can be conducted based on the data privacy risks?

Any policies or procedural information you can share would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you,

Lisa Schaffer

lisa.schaffer@louisville.edu

Corrective Action Plans

LDSchaffer — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 15:17:42 +0000

I am looking at revising our corrective action plan template and helping the study team identify the root cause for their error. Does anyone have a corrective action plan template or guidance that they love and would be willing to share?