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July 2017
Recently, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) extended the effectivedate of its policy on the use of the single Institutional Review Board
(IRB, or sIRB if a single IRB) to January 25, 2018. NIH created the sIRB
policy to establish the expectation that a sIRB be used in the ethical
review of multisite, domestic, non-exempt human subject research
funded by NIH. The extension will apply to all competing grant
applications with due dates on or after January 25, 2018.