If applications are filled out incorrectly, research projects stand to lose their federal grant funding.
The Way to the Web
The decision was complicated here because other human subject research protection is handled by three separate
Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) in the University--one for the Medical School, one for the School of Public Health and one for FAS, according to Mary H. Mitchell, the associate director for awards management for the University.
But to ease acceptance of the new educational guidelines, administrators decided they had to collaborate across the University.
Individuals from all the three IRBs and from the central administration took part in the development of the website.
Mitchell coordinated the effort.
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