The increasing complexity of human subjects research and its oversight has prompted
researchers, as well as institutional review boards (IRBs), to have a forum in which to …

The complexity of biomedical research has increased considerably in the last decade, as
has the pace of translational research. This complexity has generated a number of novel …

Interesting and important ethical questions confront researchers, regulators, institutional
review boards, support personnel, and research participants committed to the ethical …

Research ethics consultation was first mentioned in the published literature nearly 20 years
ago when Singer and colleagues described a collaborative process between clinical …

This proposal to integrate research ethics consultation into the IRB process is not just
theoretical. It is the way it was at the University of Wisconsin Health Sciences Center for …

DISCUSSION Although the number of RECS at academic institutions has recently increased
(Cho et al. 2015), the information describing these services is incomplete. More data are …

In their article, Kathryn May Porter et al.(2018) describe their experience with the National
Research Ethics Consultation Collaborative, a nationwide group of research ethics …

Emphasis on translational research to facilitate progression from the laboratory into the
community also creates a dynamic in which ethics and social policy questions and solutions …

The article by Porter and colleagues (2018) illustrates the value of research ethics
consultants (RECs) to researchers, administrators, and academic institutions, but focuses …

BACKGROUND The RECS at JHSPH started in March 2005. As background, The Johns
Hopkins University received funds as part of an Office for Human Research …