Institutional ethics consultation services for biomedical scientists have begun to proliferate,
especially for clinical researchers. We discuss several models of ethics consultation and …

Background Research ethics consultation programs are being established with a goal of
addressing the ethical, societal, and policy considerations associated with biomedical …

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 …

Although clinical ethics has become a central, and welcome, component of the health care
landscape, research ethics consultation services are still uncommon. Indeed, the usual …

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

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 …

Although bioethicists and institutions have long provided ethics consultations on an
individual basis, research ethics consultation is still a relatively new concept1 as an …

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 …

Bioethics consultation is flourishing in the private sector. The corporate clients are aware
that their work raises substantive ethical issues, and often they are concerned about how …

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