IRB Live Education Series—Fall 2025

 

The IRB is excited to share Fall 2025 EDU series dates!

 

If you are new to the IRB and in need of some guidance, please attend one of our IRB 101 Training Sessions. IRB staff will cover the basic types of submissions including initial applications, continuing review, modifications, deviations, and reportable events. Staff will also provide brief information about the upcoming new submission system, eIRB. However, IRB 101 sessions will not be an eIRB training. Separate town halls and trainings will be held for eIRB. Penn Medicine and Penn Dental researchers should please register for one of the Biomedical 101 sessions. Anyone is welcome to sign up for the Social Behavioral session. You can also sign up for both!

 

If you are new to the IRB or want to take a deep dive into the informed consent process, please attend our Informed Consent Process Session. IRB staff will cover definitions of informed consent, types of consent, required elements of consent, waivers of consent, and more. This session will be relevant to all schools at Penn.

 

If you are a Penn Medicine or Penn Dental researcher with questions about HIPAA compliance and data privacy, please attend our HIPAA Privacy Considerations for IRB Applications session.

 

Are you an ethnographer who’s wondering how to submit your project to the IRB? Please attend our Ethnographic Submissions Training! IRB staff will explain how to translate your work into an IRB application and cover what the IRB looks for when reviewing ethnographic projects. This session will be relevant to social science and humanities researchers across Penn, including students.

 

If you’re designing a study with a drug or a device – do you know if you need an Investigational New Drug (IND) or an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) Application? Can your study be exempt from the IND or IDE regulations? Attend our Regulatory Requirements for Investigator Initiated Studies Involving Drugs and Devices training! This session will explain what IND and IDE exemptions are, criteria that must be met, and the review process at Penn.

 

All sessions will last 60-90 minutes to allow time for Q&A. Sessions will be held via Zoom. Zoom links will be distributed to attendees via email about 24 hours before each session begins. Sessions will not be recorded, but slides are available upon request.

 

Any questions can be directed to Diana Floegel, Senior Regulatory Analyst and IRB 8 Chair, at floegeld@upenn.edu.

 

Sign up for the sessions below here:

https://upenn.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_82HRif6MJsoEAVE

 

  • Thursday, September 25, 2-3:30pm: Biomedical 101
  • Thursday, October 2, 2-3:30pm: The Informed Consent Process
  • Thursday, October 9, 2-3:30pm: Social-Behavioral 101
  • Thursday, October 16, 2-3:30pm: Biomedical 101
  • Tuesday, October 21, 1-2:30pm: HIPAA Privacy Implications for IRB Applications
  • Thursday, October 23, 2-3:30pm: Ethnographic Submissions
  • Thursday, October 30, 2:30-3:30pm: Regulatory Requirements for Investigator Initiated Studies Involving Drugs and Devices