On April 14, the NIH sent Harvard University a Stop Work Order of the SMART IRB federal funding contract.
Harvard is temporarily supporting the core team to allow institutions to continue to join the SMART IRB Agreement and to assist Participating Institutions to the best of our abilities.
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Signing Up

Sign Up/ Register

1. Navigate to the Reliance System.

SMART IRB Logo on the top left hand corner. Login and register icons on the top right hand corner. Information about SMART IRB placed in left aligned with a scientific graphic on the right hand side.

2. Click on the “Register” button on the screen.

3. Select Institution from results.  

4.Users may create an account in the Reliance System using one of three methods:

  •  Research Organization
            This option may only be utilized if a user’s institution is a member of the Incommon federation network. To check if your institution is listed, please following the following link and search for the institution in the top box.
    • Login.gov
            This option should be used if Research Organization and NIH are not available options. Please create an account to use for logging into the system.
    • NIH
            This option can be used by NIH staff members with NIH log in credentials.

5. Enter your user registration details. 

6. Select create account. 

7. Confirmation email will be sent to let you know that you have successfully registered.