OCTA 2025-2026 Holiday Schedule

OCTA 2025-2026 HOLIDAY SCHEDULE

NEW CLINICAL TRIAL ACTIVATION DEADLINES & ONCORE SUPPORT

***Please distribute this information to all appropriate faculty and staff within your department***

Dear Colleagues,

 

Below are the holiday dates for the Office of Clinical Trial Activation. During this time, OCTA will provide limited support for incoming requests. Please note that OCTA will be closed from 12/24/25 to 01/01/26.

 

Holiday

Limited Support

Closed 

Thanksgiving Holiday      

  • Nov 24th - 26th 

  • Nov 27th - 28th  

Winter and New Year’s Holiday 

  • Dec 22nd - 23rd  

  • Dec 24th - Jan 1st

 

New clinical trial activation receipt and calendar construction deadlines are outlined for the Winter, and New Year Holidays.  Please contact OCTA Operations team at [email protected] for more specific estimates.

 

We anticipate limited staffing during the holiday period and strongly recommend that study team submissions occur before Dec 10th or after Jan 1st to provide sufficient time for processing. Below are adjusted deadlines to accommodate holiday staffing:

OCTA Services

Submit By

Estimate

New trial activation submission & calendar creation

(Submit to IRB & OCTA at the same time to ensure parallel processing)

Dec. 10th 

Jan. 2nd - 9th 

For APeX study build 

 

Dec. 17th 

Jan. 2nd - 9th 

 

OnCore Support

Request by

Estimate

New OnCore account creation and training must be done by Dec. 18

Dec. 17th

Jan. 2nd

Normal priority OnCore support tickets 

Dec. 19th

Jan. 2nd

Tier 1 support (System outage)

 

Same day

For prompt clinical trial activation processing, please provide the following required documents in conjunction with ServiceNow: Clinical protocol, draft ICF, draft budget template, draft CTA.

OnCore support – [email protected]

If you have any questions please contact Riya Kishnani, Operations Supervisor - [email protected].