You no longer need a form to request a congruency review for a proposal. You only need to send an email with the following information to dorc@yale.edu:
No, you no longer need to submit any form to request a congruency review.
In most cases, we will be able to obtain a copy of the proposal from either eRA Commons (NIH database) or IRES (Grants and Contracts database). In the event that it is not available from either source, we will request an electronic copy of the proposal from the PI.
No. Yale has a policy of one to many and many to one. This means you can have several awards linked to one protocol or one award linked to several protocols. The only stipulation is that the work described in the proposal is covered by the protocol.
Yes, a competing continuation is considered a new award. Even if it contains the exact same science, species, experiments etc. as the previous iteration of the proposal, a congruency review is required.
Policy standards required by PHS are applied to all live vertebrate animal research at Yale to maintain process/program consistency University-wide. The NIH Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) discourages multiple standards of review, approval or compliance measures for different funding sources.
When applying for a new protocol to cover work on a submitted proposal, please keep in mind that it can take some time for protocol approval. Please submit a new protocol application as soon as possible and at least 60 days prior to the award start date. Please refer to the IACUC commitee schedule for submission deadline dates.
When applying for a new protocol application, all extramural funding that you want to be linked to this new application needs to be listed in the funding section. Please refer to Listing Awards for New Protocol Application.
When applying for a 3 Year renewal to an existing protocol, all active, extramural funding currently linked needs to be listed in the funding section of the renewal application. You can also list any funding you would like to add to your new protocol. Please refer to Listing Awards for 3 year Protocol Renewal.
If for any reason you would prefer to generate a new protocol to cover the work outlined in your new proposal, submit the new protocol application to the IACUC as soon as possible and 60 days prior to likely award start date and list the proposal(s) in the funding section of the application.
Yes. At Yale, IACUC approval is required for custom antibody generation. Antibody generation can either be included in a full protocol application or requested using the Custom Antibody Generation protocol form.
If your proposal requires an IACUC congruency review and approval prior to submission, please send the proposal and protocol information to dorc@yale.edu 30 days prior to the proposal submission deadline date.
Yes. Because the proposal was revised, that proposal must undergo a complete congruency review even if the animal work proposed remains unchanged.
While a congruency review is still required to verify the information in the proposal, a Yale IACUC protocol is not required. Once verified that all animal work is conducted outside of Yale, DoRC will then request that the PI supply supplemental IACUC information from the institution(s) carrying out the animal work, even if the institution is a contract organization or a foreign institution.