December 13 2018
NCI’s National Clinical Trials Network (NCTN) and the NCI Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) are implementing new requirements for membership in and use of the NCI Central IRB (CIRB). This policy is necessary to bring the NCTN and NCORP programs into compliance with the NIH Policy on the Use of a Single Institutional Review Board for Multi-Site Research (
NOT-OD-16-094). This policy applies to all United States sites enrolling patients in NCTN and NCORP studies and all Groups and Research Bases funded through the NCTN and NCORP programs. As of March 1, 2019, all sites must be members of the NCI CIRB to enroll new patients on any NCTN or NCORP trials. On this date, sites that are not CIRB members will be put in a “suspended” status on the NCTN and NCORP membership rosters and will not be able to enroll new patients to NCTN and NCORP trials.
Most NRG Oncology sites are already members of the NCI CIRB but if you are not sure please contact your local IRB. Read more