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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Sending Indemnification to Institutional Official

1. Click “My Institutions” from the left-hand navigation to show all institutions associated with your account. 

2. You can also select “Indemnification” from the left hand navigation. 

3. Click “New Submission”.

4. To view what the Signatory Official will see in the agreement, use the download Indemnification PDF button.

This will save a prefilled version of the indemnification to your computer.

5. Open the downloaded PDF to see a copy of the indemnification. 

6.Confirm the information for the signatory official, populated from the details added under the institutional official in the contact list.  

7.Click the “Request Signature” button to send a link to the Signatory Official for them to sign.

8.Click the “Request Signature” button to send a link to the Signatory Official for them to sign.

9.An email will be sent to the Institutional Official asking them to review and sign the agreement.

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