The Rice Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Subjects in Research meets monthly during the academic year. Please reference the table below for information regarding meeting dates and deadlines for receipt of review materials. In order to be considered at a Board meeting, protocol materials must be received by the initial and revised deadline dates for that meeting. Otherwise, the protocol will be reviewed at the next scheduled meeting.

*All protocol components for new studies (application, consent form, surveys/questions, etc must be submitted to the Compliance Administrator, Michele Pratt (mpratt@rice.edu), by this date.

**All revisions to the initial submission must be returned to the Compliance Administrator, Michele Pratt (mpratt@rice.edu), by this date.

Note that the Rice IRB meets only during the academic year and not during the summer months.