The death of a young man, Jesse Gelsinger, in a 1999 gene therapy experiment has focused attention on the challenges of research with human subjects. This issue had been simmering just below the ...

The Institutional Review Board is a local review board, established by the Western Michigan University Board of Trustees in accord with federal regulations, to interpret and apply federal regulations, ...

Your article "Monitoring Human Subjects and Clinical Trials" 1 reports on the findings of the Health and Human Services Inspector General concerning institutional review boards and determines that ...

New government policies requiring ethics education for research scientists could create administrative headaches for the University. A new National Institutes of Health (NIH) policy that requires all ...

SUMMARY: The departments and agencies listed in this document propose revisions to modernize, strengthen, and make more effective the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects that was ...

Non-academic members of research teams, such as community members, can perceive traditional human subjects protection training as lacking in cultural relevance. We present a case exemplar of the ...

Quality assurance auditing at Case Western Reserve University compares the implementation of the human subjects protocol by the investigator to the specifics of the CWRU Institutional Review Board ...

Pritchard worked in the Office for Human Research Protections for 20 years and retired as the senior adviser to the director of OHRP in 2024. Deciding whether to participate in a clinical research ...

The Department of Justice (DoJ), which includes the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and the Federal Bureau of Prisons and other agencies, complies with the Common Rule as codified at 28 CFR 46.

PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. (April 24, 2012) -- Along the winding Snake Hill road in the Picatinny Arsenal 3500 area sits the Target Behavioral Response Laboratory, which is responsible for providing ...