Institute Review Board (IRB)

IIIT Hyderabad Institute Review Board (IRB) reviews and approves ethics clearance for academic research projects handled by IIIT Hyderabad faculty only, which involve the participation of human subjects and Volunteers.

Responsibilities

• The institute Review Board (IRB) performs ethical review of proposed research involving human participants and is responsible for protecting the rights and welfare of human participants of research conducted at IIIT-Hyderabad.
• IRB is responsible for reviewing and approving of research protocols and obtaining and documenting informed consent of study participants

The Committee operates as per the “Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) National Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research involving Human Participants”, and the “Medical Devices Gazzette 2019” rules. It is mandatory for the IIIT Hyderabad Faculty members to secure an IRB clearance for the projects involving Human participants before the start of a research project.

RnD office, IIIT Hyderabad collects the research proposals requiring ethical clearance and forwards the same to Institutional Ethics sub-Committee [IEsC]. IEsC will perform technical evaluation, Pre-screening and recommend to IRB for ethics clearance (exemption/expedited review / full IRB review). Apart from these, the committee would guide and suggest on the following matters to researchers as well as the institute from time-to-time: ethics related issues, data privacy, protection, and security. The committee would co-opt domain experts relevant to the subject matter of the proposals for technical evaluation of the proposals on a case-by- case basis.

RnD office convenes full IRB meeting as per the requirement from time-to-time.

IIIT-H Faculty will have to submit their duly signed application in the prescribed format along with the required documents to RnD office, IIIT Hyderabad.

Additionally, the faculty member should e-mail the completely filled application form along with required documents as a single file to irb@iiit.ac.in

The received application would be sent for technical and ethical review and the comments received on them would be communicated to the faculty member/principal investigator.

If required, concerned faculty/PI would be asked to address the concerns in front of the committee by making a presentation.

• Application Form
• Informed Consent Form
• Participant Information sheet

• The ICMR Guidelines 2017
• Medical Devices Rules 2019

The institute Review Board (IRB),