The IRB Submission
A formal research protocol prepared for independent ethical review — participant protections, oversight, and methodology defined before any data is collected.
▲ Being assembledFor many veterans the hardest injuries are the ones nobody can see. Recovery is real, but when you can’t observe it changing, it’s very hard to know what is actually helping.
Bombshell Discovery and CURE Medical are working together to assemble an Institutional Review Board (IRB) submission for a study of post-traumatic stress — building a longitudinal record, under physician oversight, of what recovery looks like over time rather than in a single snapshot.
A formal research protocol prepared for independent ethical review — participant protections, oversight, and methodology defined before any data is collected.
▲ Being assembledMeasurement repeated often enough, and for long enough, to show change over time — the difference between one data point and an actual trajectory.
▲ ProposedFindings intended to be shared, so what is learned here can help the next veteran and the next organization — not sit in a drawer.
▲ ProposedStatus: This research initiative is in the planning stage. The IRB submission is in preparation and has not yet been reviewed or approved. No study is currently enrolling and no participants are being recruited. Nothing here is a medical claim.
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