Security Upgrade Impacts Users Who Login with U-M Friend Account

To strengthen system security, study team members who use an external email address (Friend Account) instead of a U-M uniqname to login to eResearch will now have limited ability to edit or create applications in the eResearch Regulatory Management software.

Effective April 14, 2024, what these users can do in the system will change.

They will be able to:

• View IRB, REP, or IBC applications where they are listed on the study or lab team
• Accept their role and upload their CV as part of the Accept Role process.

They will no longer be able to:

• Create new applications, studies, amendments or new users
• Edit human subject studies, repository applications, or IBC applications
• Post correspondence on a study workspace.

For SITE applications (the interface for working with external institutions where a U-M IRB is providing oversight) Friend Account users will continue to be able to edit and post correspondence for their sites.

If a study requires a study team member external to U-M to edit the study, a U-M study team member must request a uniqname for that person via the Sponsored Affiliate account process (or use the person’s existing uniqname if they have received one via a different process).

Once a Sponsored Affiliate account is created, or their existing uniqname is identified, submit a help ticket to [email protected]. In the email, include the relevant HUM #(s), the external email address used by the individual in the study(s), and the (new/existing) U-M uniqname. The help team will update the HUM data as appropriate, switching the user from their Friend Account to their Sponsored Affiliate (uniqname) account.