Principal investigators, lead course instructors, and other study staff are typically invited to attend IBC meetings when their research or teaching protocols require full committee review. While attendance at IBC meetings is not strictly required, it is strongly recommended. The IBC wants to do a careful review of your proposal and often has questions, which can be more easily answered if you are present at the meeting. In most cases, your attendance at IBC meetings will allow the review to go more smoothly and will increase the likelihood that your submission will be approved.<\/p>\n
Nope! All of your submission materials will have already been distributed to the committee in advance of the meeting and will be accessible by the committee during the meeting. It may be helpful to have your submission in front of you for reference as well, but we will also typically display your submission during the meeting to help everyone follow along as questions are asked.<\/p>\n
If there are additional details (papers, data, etc.) that weren’t included in your submission that you think would be valuable to the committee’s review, please email them to uwm-biosafety@uwm.edu<\/a> or your Biosafety office contact in advance of the meeting so that we can distribute them and\/or display them during the meeting.<\/p>\n A majority of IBC members will be present at the meeting. Depending on current membership, this is typically 5-10 members.<\/p>\n Our meetings are open meetings, in accordance with Wisconsin state law. This means you may arrive at the meeting whenever you’d like. We may be discussing something else when you arrive, so if that\u2019s the case, you can stay in the meeting or feel free to duck out and come back at your scheduled time. If the review ahead of yours is taking longer than expected and it will be a while, or if we need to go into closed session, we\u2019ll be sure to let you know.<\/p>\n Once we\u2019re ready to review your study, the Chair will typically ask you to introduce yourself and give us an overview of your research. Remember that you are speaking to a diverse audience of scientists and community members, so include an explanation of why your work is important and what motivates it. It is also particularly helpful if you can briefly describe how the procedures in your submission will be conducted and how they fit together in the overall experiment or course design. Everyone will have reviewed the materials already, but it\u2019s still helpful to hear a summary from the researcher or instructor.<\/p>\n After you provide a summary, the Chair or another IBC member will lead the process of asking questions that have been posed in advance by the various members of the IBC. These questions will generally focus on clarifying any procedures that were unclear, getting additional detail on the materials you’ll use, or requesting additional safety information. Other members of the committee may also chime in with new questions or comments as the discussion progresses.<\/p>\n Remember, most questions are simply that \u2013 questions! The committee asks them because they want to fully understand your research or teaching plan. They are not intended to criticize or imply that your work plan is wrong. In some cases, the committee may think that something should be changed; but if so, those items will be called out and communicated to you directly.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t worry about trying to take notes. The Biosafety & Research Compliance office staff take detailed notes, so you can just focus on answering the IBC’s questions. You\u2019ll receive an email within 1-2 business days outlining the specific changes needed in your materials.<\/p>\n Once the IBC\u2019s questions are answered, we\u2019ll thank you for coming and you’ll be invited to leave.<\/p>\n After you\u2019ve left, the Chair will ask for any final discussion and then the IBC will vote on your study. To approve the proposal, the IBC must agree that:<\/p>\n There are 4 possible votes that the committee can make:<\/p>\n As mentioned above, you\u2019ll receive an email within 1-2 business days after the meeting with details of the committee’s decision and any revisions requested. Biosafety office staff will be in touch to assist with next steps depending on the committee’s vote.<\/p>\n If you have any questions along the way, please feel free to contact the UWM Biosafety office at uwm-biosafety@uwm.edu<\/a> or 414-588-4261.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who will be there?<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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