22
Jul2015

Opportunities for Advancement: Promoting Employee Engagement in Animal Care and Use Programs

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22 Jul
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By Angela Craig, DVM, lab animal veterinarian and institutional animal care and use committee (IACUC) member at the University of Minnesota

 

Each of us has a unique path that brought us to our career in laboratory animal care and use. I started my career in laboratory animal medicine twenty years ago as a member of the husbandry staff. I enjoyed the close connection I made with the animals under my care, and I understood that they depended on me for their basic needs. I further realized how the scientific discoveries unfolding were dependent on physically and psychologically healthy animals. When you feel deeply invested in the work you do, it is natural [...] Read more

20
Jul2015

From the Director: Shedding Light on Compassion Fatigue

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20 Jul
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By Elisa A. Hurley, PhD, executive director
PRIM&R is unique in the research ethics world, serving as we do both the human subjects research and animal care and use communities. And from this unique position, we often see bridges and links between work with animals and work with humans, whether it’s thinking about the translational impact research with animals has on understanding and treating human disease; identifying and addressing similarities in research oversight processes between human research protection and animal care and use programs; or recognizing parallels between the ethical concepts called into play in each domain – for example, risk/benefit analysis— and gleaning generalizable lessons from such commonalities.
I’ve recently been thinking [...] Read more

15
Jul2015

Applying Principles to Process: the Belmont Report and the work of the IRB

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15 Jul
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The Belmont Report serves as the ethical basis upon which regulations on the use of human subjects in research are based. These principles do not technically govern the research process, and yet are essential to ensure that research is done ethically. At the 2014 Advancing Ethical Research Conference, Gigi McMillan interviewed Ilene Wilets, PhD, CIP, executive director of the institutional review board (IRB) at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, for People and Perspectives. During her interview, Dr. Wilets [...] Read more

10
Jul2015

Research Ethics Roundup: China’s Role in Research, NIH’s Single IRB Policy, and More

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10 Jul
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This week’s Research Ethics Roundup reflects on the past by exploring revelations that the US government conducted race-based experiments on American troops and considers emerging issues such as China’s growing presence in biomedical research and the move toward single IRB review.

A Scientific Ethical Divide Between China and West: In this article for The New York Times, Didi Kirsten Tatlow explores some ethical concerns that have come to the fore amidst China’s efforts to “become a leader biomedical research.”
Please, Corporations, Experiment on Us: [...] Read more

9
Jul2015

The Power of Mentoring

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9 Jul
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Every year, PRIM&R’s Mentoring Program connects hundreds of members to one another, in order to share knowledge, grow people professionally, and help solve short- and longer-term challenges. PRIM&R routinely checks in on these mentoring pairs to see how their conversations are progressing, and to assure the match is a good one. Quite often, their feedback reminds us of the importance of this program, and our members’ willingness to support one another.

Today, we are pleased to offer a snapshot into one mentoring relationship between Paul Reitemeier, PhD, corporate director of bioethics at Beaumont Health in Royal Oak, MI, and Ann Morrison, [...] Read more

8
Jul2015

Data Sharing in Clinical Trials: Webinar Follow-Up

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8 Jul
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By Samia Rizk, MD, professor of clinical pathology at Cairo University

Open data refers to “data that can be freely used, shared, and built-on by anyone, anywhere.” Data which is considered “open” is further required to be legally acceptable, technically readable, and available to others. The many potential benefits attributed to data sharing are combined with its many challenges: assuring privacy and security, the autonomy of participants as it relates to their ability to give valid consent, population and cultural issues, measures for appropriate governance, commercialization, and sustainability of databases.

With no binding requirement, it is a scientist’s decision whether or [...] Read more