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The McMaster Research Ethics Board

Upcoming Events!

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH ETHICS WORKSHOPS

By: Karen Szala-Meneok (Senior Ethics Advisor)

DATE & TIME:

Wednesday Feb 8 1:30-2:30 pm Room 230 MUSC

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GRADUATE RESEARCH ETHICS SEMINAR

8:30 – 1:15

Thu Nov 3 CIBC HALL-319

Sample presentation material from the Seminar is now available: < Here >

ETHICS DROP IN CONSULTATION

12:00 – 1:30

Wed Feb 1, 2012 MUSC-214
Thu Mar 1, 2012 MUSC-214
Wed Apr 4, 2012 MUSC-214

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What's New!

  • Françoise Baylis, CRC - Bioethics Feb 14 & 15

    Dr. Baylis, Canada Research Chair in Bioethics and Philosophy at Dalhousie University, will give a talk on Research Ethics: The Obligation to Include Women in Research, at 44 Frid St. Spectator Building, at 7:00pm as part of the Science in the City lecture series. See poster for more details:Poster. Science in the City info on this <Here>

  • Panel on Research Ethics (PRE) Webinars

    The PRE will present a series of Webinars on interpreting the newly revised Tri-Council Policy Statement. More information can be found on their website.

  • Panel on Research Ethics Launches the TCPS 2 Tutorial

    The Interagency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics is pleased to announce the launch of a new, online tutorial,< TCPS 2: Course on Research Ethics (CORE). > CORE was designed to support the Canadian research community’s implementation of the 2nd edition of the Tri-council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans (TCPS 2).
  • Don't know where to start? You can contact us or check out our newly updated Samples and Checklists for material you can work with!
  • Ethically Impossible:STD Research in Guatemala from 1946 - 1948 The U.S. President's Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues report on research wrong doing involving intentionally exposing and infecting vulnerable populations to sexually transmitted diseases without the subjects’ consent.
  • New York Times Article, May 13, 2011: Oral history interviews subpoenaed for US historian's research on IRA "Secret Archive of Ulster Troubles Faces Subpoena"
  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks A book interview by Rebecca Skoot ( who is talking at PRIM&R in December 2010. It is about the real person who's cell lines were donated to Science, called the HeLa cells.
  • Havasupai Tribe DNA Used without Consent - Settle Law Suit with U. of Arizona Acknowledging a desire to “remedy the wrong that was done,” the university’s Board of Regents on Tuesday agreed to pay $700,000 to 41 of the tribe’s members, return the blood samples and provide other forms of assistance to the impoverished Havasupai — a settlement that legal experts said was significant because it implied that the rights of research subjects can be violated when they are not fully informed about how their DNA might be used.

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