Once you have an approved dissertation proposal and have prepared your supplemental materials, you should be ready to submit your IRB application.
Principal Investigators (including Students)
Faculty Chairs and Mentors
Email us at irb@nu.edu
Visit the IRB Office Hours page
In the group session on Introduction to the IRB Application, you will learn how to begin a study, start a new IRB application, and answer each question in the IRB application. Please note that your IRB application will not be reviewed in this session.
We suggest attending this session after the sessions on eligibility criteria, recruitment materials, and consent materials.
Please review our attendance policy before registering.
Cayuse is a third-party platform used by NU for IRB processes. All researchers must use the platform to submit applications and documents to the NU IRB. Faculty chairs/mentors will also use Cayuse to certify their students' applications.
If you are a legacy NU researcher (used NU login credentials before the university merger [Nov. 2022]), there is a guide below for you!
If you are a legacy NCU researcher (used NCU login credentials before the university merger [Nov. 2022]), there is a guide below for you, too!
If you have questions or experience technical issues, contact the NU IRB (please do not contact NU technical support).
A help video for logging in to Cayuse and beginning an application is linked below:
Instructions for using Cayuse are linked below.
The *estimated time frame for a submitted and fully certified application (certified by both PI and Faculty Sponsor/Chair [if applicable]) to be assigned to a reviewer is 2-3 business days. If your application is deemed incomplete, it will be returned to you without undergoing review. Once your application is deemed to be complete, it is assigned to a reviewer, and the *estimated time frame for a review is 7-10 business days. If an application needs to be revised and resubmitted (and re-certified), the review timeline is again 7-10 business days.
*Our estimated turnaround time for reviews may vary depending on the volume of submissions, completeness of applications, how sufficiently IRB comments are responded to, complexity of the study, level of review, etc.
