AI your IRB: Using AI to Boost Application Quality from the Start
As research regulations grow more complex, ensuring high-quality IRB (Institutional Review Board) submissions is more critical—and more time-consuming—than ever. In this session, learn how UCSF is partnering with Huron to co-develop an AI wrapper that enhances the Huron IRB system by validating determinations, automating checklists, and flagging compliance gaps for FDA-regulated research, with the ultimate goal of reviewing the entire application prior to its submission. But this session isn’t just for IRB professionals—anyone working with complex systems can learn from our approach. We’ll walk through how we scoped the project, aligned resources, and collaborated across teams to build and test a proof-of-concept AI integration. Whether you’re exploring AI for compliance, process improvement, or user support, our lessons learned can help shape your path forward.
Speaker/Host
Primary/Host Speaker
Alyssa Tecklenburg
Research Admin Compliance System Program Manager at UC San Francisco
Alyssa is part of the leadership team within Academic Research Services in UCSF’s IT department, where she leads program management for research compliance financial systems and is spearheading the implementation of a suite of new research compliance tools. An early adopter of generative AI, she is also leading the development of an AI wrapper for the IRB system to improve the quality of initial IRB application submissions. In her previous role in the Department of Medicine, she partnered with faculty and staff in the Department and School of Medicine on technology initiatives, space planning, and research-support initiatives.
A long-time UC die-hard, Alyssa has co-led Women in Tech @UCSF for six years and serves on UC WIT, a systemwide group supporting women in technology. Her family’s roots run deep at UC Davis, starting with her grandfather when it was still a farm extension of UC Berkeley, and continuing with her parents earning their degrees and culminating with her. She earned her MBA from UCLA while serving on staff at UCSF.
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