Effective September 7, 2022, following the E-IRB system update, researchers will no longer receive the message “There is a problem uploading this attachment; e.g., password protected, portfolio PDFs, corrupt files, and some digitally signed files are not supported” when attempting to upload application attachments if the files fall into one of those restricted categories. Upload restrictions will only be applied to attachments a researcher is trying to upload to an Other Review (i.e., Protocol Violation (PV); Unanticipated Problem (UP); Deviation/Exception (DEV/EXC); or Administrative Study Closure).

If you have created an Other Review and need to upload an attachment that falls in one of the restricted file categories, please either scan the document and upload the scanned version as a PDF file, or create a screen shot of the document and upload the screen shot as a PDF file.