Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • Comment
  • Published:

Institutional review boards need new skills to review data sharing and management plans

Nature Medicine volume 29, pages 1307–1309 (2023)Cite this article

Subjects

New federal rules require researchers to submit plans for how to manage and share their scientific data, but institutional ethics boards may be underprepared to review them.

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

Relevant articles

Open Access articles citing this article.

Access options

Buy this article

  • Purchase on Springer Link
  • Instant access to full article PDF
Buy now

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

References

  1. White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP). https://go.nature.com/3RsHi29 (2022).

  2. Serpico, K. et al. Ethics Hum. Res. 44, 26–32 (2022).

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  3. Currie, P. M. IRB 27, 7–12 (2005).

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  4. Serpico, K. et al. AJOB Empir. Bioeth. 13, 251–262 (2022).

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  5. Mello, M. M. et al. Science 367, 150–152 (2020).

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  6. Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS). Publication 197. https://go.nature.com/3lr7v74 (2001).

  7. Ross, R., Pillitteri, V., Dempsey, K., Riddle, M. & Guissanie, G. https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.800-171r2 (2020).

  8. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). https://go.nature.com/40lI99i (2022).

  9. Ferretti, A. et al. BMC Med. Ethics 22, 51 (2021).

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  10. Milne, R. et al. Genome Med. 13, 92 (2021).

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  11. Tsosie, K. S. et al. Nat. Rev. Genet. 20, 497–498 (2019).

    Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  12. Sanderson, S. C. et al. AJHG 100, 414–427 (2017).

    Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  13. National Institutes of Health. https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/not-od-00-031.html (2000).

  14. National Institutes of Health. https://go.nature.com/3Z9uNMm (2023).

  15. National Institutes of Health. https://go.nature.com/42qZNdE (2020).

  16. Department of Health and Human Services. https://go.nature.com/40oclR7 (2012).

Download references

Acknowledgements

The authors wish to thank E. Anderson, H. Fernandez Lynch and members of AEREO: The Consortium to Advance Effective Research Ethics Oversight for their feedback on earlier versions of this article.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

    Vasiliki Rahimzadeh

  2. Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA

    Kimberley Serpico

  3. Advarra; Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Center of Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard, Columbia, MA, USA

    Luke Gelinas

Authors
  1. Vasiliki Rahimzadeh
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Kimberley Serpico
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Luke Gelinas
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Vasiliki Rahimzadeh.

Ethics declarations

Competing interests

L.G. is a full-time employee of Advarra IRB. K.S. is a full-time employee of the Harvard Chan School IRB.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Rahimzadeh, V., Serpico, K. & Gelinas, L. Institutional review boards need new skills to review data sharing and management plans. Nat Med 29, 1307–1309 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-023-02292-w

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-023-02292-w

This article is cited by

Search

Advanced search

Quick links

Nature Briefing

Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing