Furthermore, predictive analytics companies do not go
through ethical review boards or run highly controlled studies using one or two messages at a time.
An investigation related to this research has been conducted by the Expert Group for Misconduct in Research at the Swedish
Central Ethical Review Board on behalf of Karolinska Institutet.
This study was approved by the
regional ethical review board of Gothenburg, Sweden, which issued a waiver regarding the need for patient informed consent.
Recently, two new reports critiqued KI's role in the case, and Sweden's Central
Ethical Review Board found Macchiarini guilty of misconduct in a 2014 paper.
It follows a decision by Sweden's Central
Ethical Review Board earlier this year, which concluded he had committed misconduct by releasing misleading results.
KI's announcement will hardly come as a surprise to anyone, and I have nothing more to add that wasn't in the documents I submitted to the Swedish Justice Office earlier this year regarding both [Central
Ethical Review Board] and KI's behaviour in this matter.
In 2016, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences recommended the creation of
ethical review boards for informatics research at universities in the Netherlands, based on experience gained in the field of medicine.
Chief Legal Counsel Anna Hörnlund, who wrote a letter in this week's The Lancet, says Macchiarini's work needed to obtain ethical approval from one of six
regional ethical review boards, as required by Swedish law — and neither Macchiarini nor his former employer, Karolinska Institutet, did so:
A preliminary investigation by UU dismissed the claims in August 2016; a second investigation, by an expert panel at Sweden's
Central Ethical Review Board, is still ongoing.
Nibbering plans to test SAAP - 148 in clinical trials soon — first to disinfect lesions from the inflammatory skin disease atopic dermatitis, then to treat the infected wounds of burn patients — once
an ethical review board gives its approval.
In most of the cases where a clinic had received such a request, say Kerr and Caplan, it had not sought legal advice or approached
an ethical review board — although some asked if Kerr and Caplan knew whether the practice was legal.
The project's
ethical review board had determined that if families wanted to know of mutations potentially underlying a child's intellectual disability, they must also be willing to receive such incidental findings, and so the child's parents were told.
So - called investigator brochures — the documents that researchers produce to convince regulatory agencies and
ethical review boards that a proposed trial is worth the risk — are often lacking crucial information about the efficacy of the proposed therapy in animal models.
A preliminary investigation by Uppsala dismissed the claims in August 2016; a second investigation, by an expert panel at Sweden's Central
Ethical Review Board, is ongoing.
The research was carried out under the authority of the United Kingdom Animal (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 with approval from The University of Nottingham Animal Welfare and
Ethical Review Board.
Sweden's Central
Ethical Review Board is re-examining the original misconduct charges against Macchiarini; they are expected to release the first of several reports from that effort in the coming week.
«We find it to be very unlikely that the transplants would have been approved by
an ethical review board based on the scientific information that was available in 2011,» the panel writes.
An ethical review board in Sweden is asking journals to retract six papers co-authored by former star surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, after concluding that he and his co-authors committed misconduct.
Yesterday, the country's government submitted a formal vaccine trial protocol, developed with Epicentre, the Paris - based research arm of Doctors Without Borders (MSF), to
an ethical review board.
The Expert Group on Scientific Misconduct at the Central
Ethical Review Board has determined that concerns over that paper — and five others co-authored by Macchiarini, once based at the Karolinska Institutet (KI)-- were justified.
Human discarded foreskin tissues were obtained from the Shanghai Children's Center upon the approval from
the Ethical Review Board of the Institute of Health Sciences and after obtaining the written informed consent from parents of the child participants.
Ethical approval: This research has ethical approval as part of Psychiatry Sweden «Psykisk ohälsa, psykiatrisk sjukdom: förekomst och etiologi,» approved by the Stockholm Regional
Ethical Review Board (number 2010/1185 -31 / 5).
October 14, 2016: Nature Communications issues an expression of concern for the 2014 paper flagged by the Central
Ethical Review Board.
For example, the most famous study to show that treatment made psychopaths worse, carried out at a Canadian prison in the 1960's, would never pass muster with
an ethical review board today.
The Ethical Review Board of Stockholm approved the study (2008/580 -31).