The following announcement describes the changes implemented in E-IRB on October 8, 2025.
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10/8 E-IRB System Update - ORI Contact Feature & Copy Inactive Application Tool
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October 8, 2025 E-IRB System Update
Researcher Inbox – ORI Contact Added
To improve how the researcher identifies who the ORI contact person is for their application, a column has been added to the Researcher’s Inbox with a link to open e-mail for the named ORI Contact.
Some user’s web browser settings may prevent the email link from opening in a separate web browser tab, so the following tool tip appears when the user hovers their mouse cursor over the “ORI Contact” column title as well as the email link:
Researcher Copy Protocol Tool
The researcher can now copy an Inactive application as long as it is less than two iterations out from the current version in production. For example, we are on Version 5 (V5) of the E-IRB system presently, so a researcher can make a copy of an Inactive application as old as Version 3 (V3), but not a V2 or V1 application. If the Inactive application is not eligible to be copied, there will be no menu option to create a copy.
