TrialSite recently learned from a major trial site organization that AstraZeneca’s AZD1222 (Oxford vaccine) Phase 3 trial was on indefinite hold due to the safety incident as a participant fell ill with what is suspected to be transverse myelitis, a rare spinal...
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University of Iowa Audit Reveals Shortcomings in its Human Subjects Research Program
The University of Iowa (UI) generates $467 million in external research funding for research—reaching an all-time high for the academic medical research center. However, those dollars could be at risk—along with a prestigious research program. Why? UI recently...
Some University of California Professors Regularly Profit from Conflicts of Interest, Shortchanging University and State Taxpayers
California has had some of the nation’s most rigorous conflict of interest rules for public employees, from annual reporting to caps on outside income. Surprisingly, the University of California (UC) System hasn’t had a standard reporting format for all...