Guidance

Find current guidance and information to help you successfully apply for IRB approval of human research projects. Each guidance includes definitions, references to the appropriate federal, state, or institutional policy and procedures, and suggestions for completion of the appropriate portion of the IRBNet application form. These guidances should help you fill out the appropriate part of the application, narratives, forms, and appendices that are embedded in the IRBNet application process (see IRBNet instructions). If you have any questions about specific guidance, please contact us at IRB@nau.edu.

Guidance documents

• Administrative closures
• Amending approved research
• Arizona state law
• Case reports
• Certificates of confidentiality
• Children
• Classroom research and independent projects
• Clinical trials
• Compensation of subjects
• Concluding human research
• Data security
• Enrollment and accrual of study participants
• FDA regulated research
• Human subject revisions
• Principal Investigator/Faculty Advisor responsibility and qualifications (Revised 01-2023)
• Limited IRB review
• Minimal risk or exempt research
• Newborn blood spots
• NIH genomic data sharing
• Not-for-Cause reviews
• Oral history
• Pregnant women
• Prisoners
• Quality improvement and program evaluation
• Recruitment and advertisements
• Renewal of human research
• Reporting local event information
• Repositories and broad consent
• Requirements for obtaining informed consent
• Requirements for other agencies
• Scientific-Scholarly review
• Single IRB review (previously “Ceded IRB Review”)
• Storing research information for future use
• Student guidance and faculty advisor responsibilities 
• Training requirements
• What is human research