Research Protections uses the eProtocol system for electronic protocol submission and review. All protocol submissions related to IRB, IACUC, and IBC protocols (initial protocol submissions, annual renewal submissions, amendments submissions, and final report submissions) must be submitted using eProtocol.
Important Links
Connect CITI Training with eProtocol
- The eProtocol system interfaces with the CITI training records using your DePaul user ID. To connect your records, log into CITI and add your DePaul user ID to your institutional profile. This can be found under Profiles > Institutional Profile > Edit Profile > add DePaul User ID.
eProtocol Tips
- Your user session will automatically time out after 60 minutes
- If you have more than one role (i.e., investigator and IBC member), you need to be sure you select the correct role before you begin working in the system.
- Your research team members can have different roles assigned within the system: Principal Investigator, Principal Investigator/Lead Instructor, Faculty Staff/Instructors, Key Research Personnel, or Teaching Assistants. You can also assign people to the type of access they have to your protocol; view mode and edit mode.
- The system has a page level check for completeness and an application check for completeness step at the end before submitting for review.
- Once you submit the form (either initial, amendment, annual renewal, or final report), you will not be able to go back into the form and edit.
- You will only be able to submit one type of submission at a time per protocol. The only form that may be submitted at the same time as another submission, or while another submission is being processed, is the Adverse Biosafety Event and Non-Compliance Report Form.
- If you want to submit a protocol for resubmission or a second protocol that is very similar to another protocol, you may clone the original protocol versus entering all the information from scratch.