The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

The mission of the UMass Lowell (UML) Institutional Review Board (IRB) is to support high-quality Human Research by: Safeguarding and promoting the health and welfare of human research participants by ...

Distinguishing between simple program evaluation and human subjects research can sometimes be difficult. While the federal regulations use the term "evaluation" in their definition of research, most ...

A panel of federal advisers voted unanimously Friday to advance a set of proposals to bolster government oversight of pathogen research that could make viruses more transmissible. The advisers, a ...