When it comes to changes roiling the federally supported research landscape, April offered no letup from the first three months of the year; if anything, the pace and magnitude increased. In one instance, an agency—the HHS...more
Report on Research Compliance 21, no. 9 (September, 2024) - Based on their review of public data on ClinicalTrials.gov, a bipartisan quartet of U.S. representatives has asked the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to...more
Report on Research Compliance Volume 19, Number 9 (September, 2022) - According to the HHS Office of Research Integrity (ORI), Janina Jiang, M.D., Ph.D., a former assistant researcher in the University of California, Los...more
Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 12 (December 2020) - Finalizing a document issued last year, on Nov. 9 the Food and Drug Administration issued “Enhancing the Diversity of Clinical Trial Populations—Eligibility...more
March 3, 2020, the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published the 2020 edition of the International Compilation of Human Research Standards, available here. The...more
On November 19, 2018, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Human Research Protections (“OHRP”) announced the availability of additional draft guidance related to a new exclusion from regulatory...more
On May 17, HHS’s Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) and FDA issued a joint, final guidance on written procedures for institutional review boards (IRBs). ...more
Ongoing Effort to Harmonize Human Subject Research Regulations The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP), both part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS),...more
On August 2, 2016, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) jointly issued draft guidance concerning Institutional Review Board (IRB) written procedures. The guidance...more