You may be familiar with IMARC Research’s History of Clinical Research (HCR). We recently released an eBook about it that briefly describes all of the images that currently make up the timeline. If you have visited our office, you may have also been given a guided tour of one of our most renowned resources. Due to the overwhelmingly positive feedback we have received, we will be highlighting each time point with a series of blogs that we plan to release over the course of the 2014-2015 calendar year.
On July 12, 1974, President Richard Nixon signed the National Research Act into law. In doing so, the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research was created. The main purpose of the act was for the newly established commission to identify basic ethical principles to be followed when conducting biomedical and behavioral human subject’s research. Additionally, the commission was tasked with developing guidelines that would help the medical community conduct research in accordance with the principles they set forth. Some concepts the commission were to consider included:
Topics: Tuskegee Syphilis Study, History of Clinical Research Timeline, The National Research Act
