The IRB has updated the Key Personnel Policy, replacing the Key Personnel Qualifications policy. This policy makes clear what it means to be engaged in research and when personnel external to Duke should be included. Please take a few minutes to review this policy.
In conjunction with the policy update, the iRIS section 600 for Outside Key Personnel has also been revised. Going forward, there is an External Key Personnel (KP) Tool with three questions to guide users in determining if/when outside personnel should be added to the application. Only personnel who are engaged in the research and relying on the DUHS IRB are to be added.
As always with iRIS application updates, please be sure to “save and continue to next section”, opening and saving each section of the application to be sure all data is preserved.