All Kirby Center studies require advance approval by the appropriate IRB(s) as well as by the Kirby Center's own Protocol Review Committee (PRC). The Johns Hopkins Medicine IRB now requires Kennedy Krieger Institute (KKI) endorsement of all proposals to conduct human subjects research at KKI, including Kirby Center projects by non-KKI principal investigators. KKI research administration has chosen to so endorse only those proposals which have been approved by the PRC. The result of this is that new projects must be approved by the PRC before KKI research administration will endorse them to the JHM-IRB. Furthermore, please note that it is essential that you list the Kirby Center as a performance site when using the JHM e-IRB system.
A schedule of PRC meetings is available. Please note that we request that applications be received two weeks in advance of the meeting, to allow time for distribution, reviewer assignments, and review.
Please be sure to use the current version of the Kirby Center application form, which provides two pages to summarize the research plan, and which requests specification of field strength. Please feel free to use an additional page for figures, if needed. Please enclose copies of the relevant consent form(s) with your Kirby Center application. Please specify funding source on Kirby Center resource utilization form. In exceptional cases, the PRC may consider formal written requests for (no more than) five hours of "pilot" time (such a request should lay out plans to secure funding for further work). Please note that our 3T scanner is an FDA-approved medical device; the approval documentation is available online.
Please be sure to use the "MRI language" mandated by the JHM-IRB,in your consent form.
Every new (and competitive renewal) federal grant application for Kirby
Center scanning needs to include a subcontract to Kennedy Krieger Institute to ensure that KKI recovers the appropriate
indirect costs for the magnetic resonance scanning. We would be happy to
develop a subcontract for you; to do so we need the following information:
Kirby Center rates are $500/hr and $575/hr for the 1.5 and 3.0 T, respectively. The rate for technical development time (for pulse sequence development and hardware testing) will be half ($250/hr and $287.50/hr, respectively).
If you are a funded investigator who
wants to extend your research into the field of neuroimaging, and you need help conceptualizing, planning, or
implementing your experiments, please feel free to contact Dr. Mike
Kraut, head of the Neuroimaging Core of the Mental Retardation and
Developmental Disabilities Research Center (MRDDRC) at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. Under
the auspices of the MRDDRC, you will find faculty with expertise in anatomic,
spectroscopic, and functional neuroimaging. Mike will talk with you about your
plans, and direct you to the person who will likely be of the most
help. Mike Kraut can be reached at (410) 955-6593 (office),
or by email at mkraut1@jhmi.edu.
provided by Jim Pekar last updated 11 September 2007