(This is a guest post by Dr. Micah Altman, who is a Senior Research Scientist and Director of Data Archiving and Acquisitions at IQSS.)
The U.S. Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) proposed a set of sweeping changes to the federal regulations that govern research involving human subjects (the “Common Rule”), in the form of an Advance Notice of Proposed Rule Making (ANPRM) and solicited comments from investigators, Institutional Review Boards (IRBs), and any other interested parties by October 26, 2011. The ANPRM...
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