IRBs in 2025: What’s Really Changing?

Send us Fan Mail In this conversation, Edye Edens with Nyssa Towsley from UNLV, examine how today’s shifting funding landscape is reshaping IRB operations. Historically, IRBs were built around the assumption that most research would be government-funded. That assumption is being challenged, with changes in funding priorities and availability beginning to influence the volume and nature of submissions. At UNLV, for example, faculty research submissions show a slight dip in volume and a change ...