Approve a COE Registration (Principal Investigator)

If a Center of Excellence (COE) registration is submitted by someone other than the Principal Investigator (PI), it will come to the PI for approval. Complete the steps below to approve a COE registration.

Approve a COE Registration (PI)

1. On your WVU+kc researcher dashboard, click the Center of Excellence section tab on the left side to view COE registrations.

2. Click the Pending Approval or the All My Registrations tab at the top to locate COE registrations with a status of Pending PI Approval.

3. Click the Edit button in the Action column to review the COE submission.

4. On the main COE Registration page, review all of the fields and information in the Required Information section to ensure that they are correct and that the appropriate IRB protocol has been linked.

5. Click the show button to reveal both the COE Questions and COE Attachments and Contacts sections. Review to ensure that the questionnaire has been answered correctly and that the contact information and attached documents are correct.

6. Click the COE Actions tab.

7. The Center of Excellence PI Approval section should be open.  Click a radio button to choose to Approve, Reject, or Return the registration.

   • Approve: Your registration will be forwarded to the COE Office for review.

   • Reject: This study does not meet the definition of a clinical trial or a prospective observational clinical study and does not need to be registered.

   • Return: You would like the requestor to make modifications to the registration and resubmit it for your approval.

8. Enter any notes you would like to share with the person who submitted the registration in the Feedback from PI field. Feedback is a required field if you are returning or rejecting this request.

9. Click the Apply button to save your approval response. 

10. Click the Dashboard tab at the top of your WVU+kc screen to return to your researcher home page.