The following policies and procedures are adopted by Bentley University for oversight of research by the university’s Institutional Review Board (IRB). They have been formulated in response to consideration of 45 CFR 690, the federal requirements known as the “Common Rule” that may be examined in its entirety here.
Because the regulations of individual federal agencies may deviate from the Common Rule, the university’s policies and procedures will be amended accordingly whenever a federal agency (or, if more than one, all federal agencies) from which the university is seeking funds requires the change(s). In other words, it may be necessary for Bentley’s policies and procedures to be amended in accordance to the government’s response to application the university may make for an assurance, through which the government would be bound to accept the results of the IRB’s review of a particular proposal for research.