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IRB Decision Tree
Does Your Project Require an Application to the Siena College IRB Office?
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Per federal regulations as prescribed in 45 CFR Part 46, any faculty, student and/or administrator/staff planning to engage in research involving human subjects must receive approval from the Siena College Institutional Review Board (IRB) prior to initiating any research activities, on or off campus.
What constitutes research or a research project? The US Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) defines research as any “systematic investigation, including research development, testing and evaluation, designed to develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge.”
What is a human subject? It seems obvious but there is a OHRP definition for this as well. A human subject is a living individual about whom an investigator conducting research obtains (1) data through intervention or interaction with the individual, or (2) Identifiable private information.