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A Webinar of Interest to IRBs
The NIH Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) Policy: Responsibilities of Investigators and IRBs.
September 23, 2008
This event, scheduled for September 23, 2008, from 1:00 until 2:30 PM EDT, will feature two expert presenters, Dr. P. Pearl O’Rourke, Director, Human Research Affairs, Partners Healthcare, and Dr. Laura Lyman Rodriguez, Senior Advisor to the Director for Research Policy at the National Human Genome Research Institute at the NIH. They will clearly and completely guide participants through the 2007 NIH GWAS Policy, and explain how investigators and IRBs can most effectively apply this policy to their work. Dr. Rodriguez will review, among other things, who and what the policy covers, and what adhering to the policy entails. Dr. O'Rourke will illustrate some of the challenges presented when implementing the NIH GWAS policy.
For more detailed information, click here.
An Important Professional Development Opportunity
Investigation, Institutional Committees
and Innovation
Save the Dates
September 25 & 26, 2008
Waltham, MA
How can IACUCs, IRBs and IBCs fulfill their responsibilities while dealing with advances in technology and research practice?
Learn from the experts and your peers in 1½ days of presentations, case studies and hands-on exercises. Academic, industry and regulatory leaders will guide sessions on topics ranging from Emerging Issues in Imaging Technology to FDA Humanitarian Use, and from BSL 4 Facilities to The Changing Paradigm for Animal Research.
Full details coming soon.
Animal Research in a Global Environment
September 23 - 26, 2008
Washington, DC
ILAR will hold an international conference September 23-26, 2008 in Washington, DC on Animal Research in a Global Environment: Meeting the Challenges. This pivotal meeting will bring together those in the international animal research community who participate in or are planning to conduct international collaborative studies in research or testing to further biomedical advances. Challenges to international research efforts include differences in regulations or guidelines for the use of animals, quality of training for those who work with animals, quality of veterinary care, and quality of the animals themselves. Participants will address these and other topics, such as outsourcing studies and issues specific to research with mice and nonhuman primates. Participants will also have an opportunity to interact with members of the Committee to Update the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals during a question and answer session.
For more information, please visit:
http://dels.nas.edu/ilar_n/ilarhome/conference/
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Living
Proof - Seniors Talk About Medical Advances
Have all the changes in medicine and medical care over the 
last 50 years improved your life or the life of a loved one or patient? Tell your
story at the Living Proof project. Living Proof invites folks aged 55
and older to write in their own words how medical advances have helped
them. The stories will be posted on the Living Proof website. To learn more about the Living Proof
project, click here. Also, get the new Living Proof: Faces of Research streaming video and teacher's classroom resources by clicking here.
