
By Amy Davis, JD, MPH, Senior Director for Publications and Programs at PRIM&R
There was a lot of talk about alternative models of institutional review board (IRB) review at PRIM&R’s 2011 Advancing Ethical Research (AER) Conference:
- There is the Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking’s (ANPRM) request for comments on a proposed requirement that all domestic, multi-site research rely on central IRBs;
- There are National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grants that favor central IRB models;
- The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is piloting a central IRB model; and
- The Department of Veterans’ Affairs relies on [...] Read more