Institutional Review Board (IRB)
Health Sciences IRB
The HS-IRB reviews research protocols, such as clinical trials, involving medical interventions or procedures where medical expertise is required for evaluation.
Contact:
Nichelle Cobb, PhD, Director HS-IRB Office
608-263-2362
website
IRB Chair:
Yoram Shenker, MD, Professor of Medicine
608-263-9221
Health Sciences Minimal Risk IRB
The MR-IRB reviews primarily research protocols that present minimal risk to subjects and that involve medical interventions or procedures requiring medical expertise or that require knowledge of the health care setting (e.g., medical records research, research database and tissue banking projects, survey and interview research, and exemption applications). The MR-IRB can review more than minimal risk research, when the committee consists of members with the appropriate expertise or ad hoc consultant(s) are appointed, should additional expertise be necessary.
Contact:
Gretchen Anding, MA, MR-IRB Manager
608-263-4170
website
IRB Chair:
Peter Rahko, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine
608-263-8838
Social and Behavioral Sciences IRB
The SBS-IRB reviews social, behavioral, and non-medical health research. It does not have appropriate expertise for review of medical research, but may review research protocols involving minimal risk health-related studies, such as those involving exercise, tape sensors, and single venipuncture, where medical training is not necessary for the evaluation of risk to research participants. The SBS-IRB reviews all non-medical prisoner protocols.
Contact:
Lillian Larson, Assistant Director
608-265-4312
SBS-IRB website
IRB Chair:
Lyn Turkstra, PhD, Associate Professor of Communicative Disorders
608-262-7583
Education Research IRB
The ED-IRB specializes in education research. It does not have appropriate expertise for review of medical research, but may review research protocols involving minimal risk health-related studies, such as those involving exercise, tape sensors, and finger sensors, where medical training is not necessary for the evaluation of risk to research participants.
Contact:
Michael Bingham, JD, Assistant Director
608-262-9710
ED-IRB website
IRB Chair:
Bradford Brown, PhD, Professor of Educational Psychology
608-262-0838
Human Research Protection Program Advisory Committee
The HRPP Advisory Committee is responsible for oversight of the UW-Madison’s HRPP, including the UW-Madison IRBs. The Advisory Committee advises the UW-Madison Institutional Official and IRBs on issues relating to human research protection, including the suspension of research privileges and reporting to federal authorities of noncompliance, unanticipated problems and suspension and termination of research. It approves all HRPP policies and communicates those policies to the UW-Madison community. It oversees campus-wide communications and training regarding human research protections. It also hears investigator appeals from decisions of the UW-Madison IRBs on issues of noncompliance, unanticipated problems and suspensions and terminations of research and reviews matters referred to it by the IRBs.
Contact:
Lois Kallunki, JD, Graduate School
608-262-1224
website
Advisory Committee Chair:
William Mellon, PhD, Associate Dean for Research Policy
608-262-1044
The UW HS-IRB requires use of a commercial IRB for qualifying research protocols. Click here for a description of the UW/Commercial process, and characteristics of qualifying studies.
