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Registration for the 2012 National Conference and Annual General Meeting is now OPEN! We are excited to offer you 3 jam-packed days of research ethics education, information, networking opportunities and fun!    For more information:  http://careb-accer.org/agm

FDA has issued the final guidance, “IRB Continuing Review after Clinical Investigation Approval.”  This guidance is intended to assist institutional review boards (IRBs) in carrying out their continuing review responsibility under 21 CFR 56.108(a) and 56.109(f) by providing recommendations regarding the criteria, process, and frequency of continuing review to assure the protection of the rights and […]

Upcoming Consultations on New AgreementThe three federal granting agencies—the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)—have been working to update and strengthen the current MOU which has been renamed the “Agreement on the Administration of Agency Grants […]

Consultation à venir sur la nouvelle ententeLes trois organismes subventionnaires fédéraux, soit les Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada, le Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada et le Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada, ont mis à jour et renforcé le protocole d’entente actuel qui a été […]

Deadline for Submission – March 16, 2012 Description: The President’s Award is presented to a current or former CAREB member for their outstanding contribution and commitment to enhancing the protection of human research participants and to improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the processes of ethical review of research with humans, thus advancing CAREB’s objectives. Nomination […]

We are pleased to inform you that we are now launching the final consultation on the Best Practices for Health Research Involving Children and Adolescents. The project started in 2008, aiming at assisting research ethics boards and health researchers in dealing with paediatric populations. After the first draft of the Best Practices had been developed, […]

SAVE THE DATE! The 2012 CAREB Annual General Meeting and National Conference  and preconference workshops will be held at the  Intercontinental Toronto Centre Hotel from April 26-28, 2012.   The theme of the conference is “Knowledge Translation of Research Ethics” and an exciting agenda is planned.   Our keynote speakers are Jennifer Stoddardt, Privacy Commissioner of Canada; Seth Mnookin, lecturer at MIT and author […]

Deadline for Submission – March 15, 2012 Prize: $500 The CAREB Conference Planning Committee encourages you to contribute to the 2012 conference program by submitting a poster abstract. The development and presentation of programmatic and scientific abstracts promotes interdisciplinary sharing and collaboration, and facilitates the exchange of ideas, information, and practical strategies for, and/or solutions […]

Three years of reflection devoted to the principle of respect for human vulnerability and personal integrity set forth in the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights of 2005, have enabled the International Bioethics Committee (IBC) to draw up its report which analyzes and proposes lines of actions for a very basic inequality among human beings: We […]