Pearl IRB 2023 Year-End Schedule

Full board meetings occur Monday afternoons at 4:30 PM Eastern.  Complete study submissions received by the EOB Monday will be reviewed at the Monday meeting of the following week.  To ensure a timely review of your study, please refer to the Example Timeline for Full...

Improving Exempt Submissions: 7 Tips to Reduce Revision Requests

When evaluating exempt protocols, we often get the comment, “Hey! This study is super simple, and obviously exempt. What’s the deal with the revisions?!”. While this is often very much the case, the IRB must evaluate what is presented against what is required by...

Pearl IRB 2022 Year-End Schedule

Full board meetings occur Monday afternoons at 4:30 PM Eastern.  Complete study submissions received by the EOB Monday, will be reviewed at the Monday meeting of the following week.  To ensure a timely review of your study, please refer to the Additional Information...

Harmonization of FDA Regulations with the Common Rule

The 21st Century Cures Act mandated that the Department of Health and Human Services (“DHHS”) “revise the DHHS Human Subject Regulations, the FDA Human Subject Regulations, and the vulnerable populations rules to reduce regulatory duplication and unnecessary delays;...