iRIS™

The iRIS™ electronic IRB submission, review and management system is for the use of UCF researchers including faculty, staff and students who do human subjects research.  Adjunct professors, emeritus faculty and those assigned a courtesy appointment should specify that designation in the application form for a new submission and obtain the approval and electronic signature of the UCF person of authority who is ultimately responsible for the conduct of the research and UCF liability.  Researchers who have no formal affiliation with UCF should not gain access to the system and enter themselves as the Principal Investigator.

In the funding section, please note if the study is funded, but the proposal or grant was not processed by the UCF Contracts and Grants Office at the Office of Research & Commercialization and, therefore, does not have a research ID number.

Doctoral students doing dissertation research and Master’s students working on their thesis research may enter themselves as the Principal Investigator, but a faculty advisor is required, and the submission must be routed to the faculty advisor for approval as well as the Department Chair or Institution/Center Director.  The Principal Investigator for undergraduate research should be the instructor, professor or faculty advisor most directly involved in the research, not the undergraduate student.  Undergraduate students directly involved in the research, particularly having contact with participants, should be listed as Co-PIs.

If the researcher wants someone else (for example, a research assistant) to also receive all the email correspondence and automatic notifications, that person’s name must be entered as the “Contact” person.

No Principal Investigator may sign off for approval of the study on his or her own research.  If in doubt, contact the IRB Office for guidance.

Faculty, staff and students whose studies have already been approved by the IRB, will have access to their studies within iRIS™  due to the data migration to the new system.  During the first year of iRIS™  use (and later years for long-term studies), scanned IRB files will be attached to the migrated study information and will be available to the reviewers for continuing review purposes. 

Principal Investigators who have an ARGIS or PARIS username and password should be able to log into iRIS™ using the same username and password.  Students and faculty who only do unfunded research, who have no ARGIS or PARIS username or password, will be able to request those from the login page at https://iris.research.ucf.edu/ or may call the IRB office for assistance at which time a standardized username and password will be assigned and the student or faculty member will be required to create his/her own at first login.

Research assistants or students may enter a new initial application in an author role and list the faculty researcher as the Principal Investigator. Without signing and submitting, he/she may route the draft version to the Principal Investigator or faculty advisor to review, correct and approve.  This will help researchers who have assistants do basic entry regarding a new study and it will help faculty who want to review and critique student’s work on the application prior to submission.  The instructor may then either make the changes within iRIS™ and submit the application or send an email to the student advising him/her of the needed changes.  There is some flexibility within the system.

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