Post IRB Submission

After submission, the next steps are addressing comments from IRB reviewers and processing payment via BIGD Admin and Finance. Detailed steps are mentioned in the following:

After submitting the form, an acknowledgement email will be sent from the IRB representative. Within three to four weeks, expect to receive feedback from reviewer 1 and 2. Note that, they may provide feedback within the IRB form (as comments) and/or also share a list of feedback in a separate doc word file. The following points mention how to address the comments:

• Separate documents should be emailed to IRB board in response to both reviewers’ remarks (in a Word file).
• Submit a revised version of the IRB form, incorporating both reviewers’ comments merged in one doc (rename as “Revised IRB form”) using track change.
• Submit one doc with comments incorporated using track change (mentioned in above point) and also, share another form accepting all the changes in both doc and pdf format.
• If the changes are major, please request for e-signature again from the ED and PI at BIGD before submitting the revised version of the IRB otherwise, it is not needed.

To summarise, files to be sent after addressing reviewer’s comments:

The IRB representative will simultaneously send the IRB invoice for completing the payment right after the initial IRB form submission. The internal investigator/PI/Co-PI should submit the e-requisition form to BIGD accounts, attaching the IRB invoice.