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With modernization of clinical trial regulations and ethics review systems, it can be difficult to know how to best approach our evolving landscape. We can help, no matter if you’re a research team, sponsor, community or patient group, government organization, funder, or research ethics board.

Our approach connects various interested parties within BC while supporting research teams and the greater clinical trial community.

For clinical trials, we can help:

• Navigate the BC ecosystem and resources, including government requests for information

• Act as a liaison with the life sciences industry, site, and investigator

• Support research ethics offices with participation in harmonization or single ethics review initiatives

• Identify sites and qualified investigators for funded trials

• Engage patients and recruit participants for clinical trials

• Provide mentoring and career development resources

Our ability to facilitate highly impactful connections comes from the meaningful relationships we have developed over time, along with using valuable tools like the Canadian Clinical Trials Asset Map.

We provide guidance and support to researchers, reviewers and project managers on ethical review and approval processes of studies conducted in multiple geographic areas involving the resources, people, patients or data from more than one BC research institution.

For harmonized ethics reviews, we can help with:

• Scope and applicability
• When to complete your PREP application
• Board of Record criteria
• Review process
• Compliance with national policies
• Addition of new sites after approval