I agree thoroughly with C.K. Gunsalus’s call for rethinking the role of the institutional review board in protecting the rights of research subjects, and with her distinction between behavioral and ...

Obtains information or biospecimens through intervention or interaction with the individual, and uses, studies, or analyzes the information or biospecimens; or Obtains, uses, studies, analyzes, or ...

The old ethics rules no longer offer adequate protection to field research subjects, say social scientists. As a result, individual people and even entire societies are left vulnerable to financial ...

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 ...

Research means a systematic investigation, including research development, testing, and evaluation, designed to develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge. Human subject means a living ...

Potential research subjects must be accurately informed of what a project involves, and given the opportunity to decide of their own free will whether or not to participate. This process may be brief ...

Obtaining informed consent is more than getting a signature on a form. Informed consent is one of the primary ethical considerations underlying research with human subjects. ALL human subject research ...

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, ...

Menu Application Process and Forms Training Reference Materials IRB Member Access To comply with federal regulations and Miami policies, research involving human subjects requires that researchers be ...

Investigators must use Cayuse to electronically submit new research studies for review and approval, course approvals, continuing research requests, amendments to approved research studies, and ...