A-Z Index and Glossary

The Institutional Animal Care & Use Committee (IACUC), supported by the Animal Care & Use Office (ACUO), is ultimately responsible for approving, requiring modification of, or prohibiting the use of vertebrate animals in research, teaching, and/or testing activities at the University of Michigan. This includes supervision, coordination, training, guidance, and review of every project proposed to include the use of vertebrate animals.

Learn more at animalcare.umich.edu. 

Internet Assisted Review (a report handled in eRA)

Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC). This U-M entity is responsible for the biological safety review and approval of the research use of recombinant DNA, synthectic nucleic acid molecules, infectious agents, biological toxins, federally-regulated select agents, and more.  

Indirect Costs/Facilities & Administrative

Investigational Device Exemption

Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training Program (NSF)

Non-monetary cost sharing, often consisting of equipment which is donated or loaned for a project.

Generally a single project or series of closely related projects under the direction of a single investigator.

An institutional conflict of interest is a situation in which a financial interest of the university (e.g., investments held by the university in a company) or a Covered Official has the potential to bias, or appear to bias, research conducted by its employees or students.

Intellectual property ("IP") means inventions, processes, compositions, life forms, computer software, copyrighted works, mask works, research tools and data, certain defined trade and service marks, Tangible Materials, and the legal rights to the same.   For more information, please refer to SPG 303.04.

• U-M Standard Practice Guide, section 201.30-5 on Federal Intergovernmental Personnel Agreements.
• IPA Process for U-M and Veterans Affairs (Med School Site)
• GSA Form 69 (pdf)
• IPA Form for VA agreements
• Veterans Affairs (VA) Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) - A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) must be completed when a U-M faculty member with a Veterans Affairs (VA) appointment is identified on a Federal grant or contract application. MOUs are active for one year and must be updated annually. 

  A copy of the most recent VA MOU must be submitted to ORSP at the time of proposal submission and with each non-competing renewal application and at the time the just-in-time material is requested for NIH applications.

Including but not limited to:

Foreign Component

• U-M affiliated investigators conducting research outside the U.S.
• Funded and unfunded collaborations with investigators who are doing
  research outside the U.S.

And

• Appointments at, and affiliations with, foreign institutions (paid and unpaid)
• Foreign sources of other support (monetary and non-monetary)
• Visitors from foreign institutions

Learn more at research.umich.edu/international-research-scholarship-guidance

An Institutional Review Board (IRB) is a federally mandated independent committee responsible for the oversight of human subjects protections in research conducted by university units and affiliates.  At U-M there is more than one IRB, with jurisdiction determined by type of research (e.g., biomedical, social-behavioral).

For IRB Office contact information, see U-M IRB Contacts.

Multi-year U-M project to redesign the current IRB application ("the HUM") and the IRB Review processes in order to improve efficiency, reduce redundancy, and maintain the high quality compliance review of human subjects research at U-M.

Institutional Review Board - Health Sciences & Behavioral Sciences

Five Medical School IRBs (collectively referred to as IRBMED)

International Traffic in Arms Regulation 

This export control regulation, administered by the U.S. Department of State Directorate of Defense Trade Controls, covers items and services related to military/defense applications, including spacecraft and satellites.  The United States Munitions List (USML) details those items, data, and services subject to ITAR.

Information Technology Management Reform Act

Information and Technology Services is an umbrellla unit of the merged general and administrative computing at the University of Michigan. ITS manages the administrative systems, such as M-Pathways and e-Research. It also provides technology and communications services for U-M Ann Arbor's academic and research needs.