What are the major contingency review conference calls and when do they occur?
When a protocol is “approved with major contingencies, the response to which requires review by the convened IRB,” may be allowed the PI to submit the requested revisions to the IRB Major Contingency Review Conference Call Meeting (“IRB MC meeting”) at the discretion of the IRB. The IRB MC meeting occurs between the monthly board meetings. The goal the IRB MC meeting is to give PIs the opportunity to submit responses to the major contingencies and have these responses reviewed sooner, so that if appropriate, they may obtain approval for the protocol without having to wait a full month. Monthly IRB meetings take place on a Monday afternoon. By Thursday of that week (3 days later), PIs whose protocols were “approved pending major contingencies” will have received the meeting review and the administrative review electronically to the e-mail address provided with the original submission. The PI has until the following Wednesday at 4 p.m. (7 calendar days) to respond to all the contingencie
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