Showing posts with label cirm regulations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cirm regulations. Show all posts

Monday, November 02, 2009

CIRM as Regulator, Compliance Enforcer

In addition to handing out $3 billion in grants to California stem cell researchers, CIRM is also a regulator, monitoring the conduct of its grantees' research to ensure they adhere to the agency's stringent ethical standards.

The subject came up briefly at last week's board meeting in Los Angeles and is expected to come up again at the board meeting in December.

Geoff Lomax, senior officer for medical and ethical standards, had prepared a presentation to discuss, among other things, the agency's research standards monitoring program. But it was caught in the hurly-burly surrounding the disease team applications and was delayed until the next board meeting.

However, his slides are available and provide an introduction to the scope of what CIRM calls its compliance program.

The effort includes financial tracking, reporting on publications and IP and examination of institutions' own oversight programs along with site visits.

Lomax's slides also said,
“CIRM provided recommendations to two institutions regarding the need for more explicit procedures and policies to govern their oversight programs.

“CIRM identified one patent that had not been reported; grantee has now addressed.

“CIRM has worked with two grantee institutions to ensure compliance with AALAC (animal care accreditation) requirements.”
Lomax's slides start with number 25 in this file.

Friday, August 01, 2008

Giving Credit at CIRM

CIRM Communications Chief Don Gibbons pointed out today that Amy Adams did all the hard work to bring together the useful grant information mentioned in the "CIRM Website Improves" item. A good job indeed.

Adams is communications manager at CIRM and works for Gibbons. We should also mention Alan Trounson, CIRM's president, who last January identified web site improvement as one of his priorities.

While we are on this subject, today we were foraging a bit and checked into the CIRM regulations page. We can't say for sure whether it has changed much, but it is a useful compilation of all CIRM's regulations and their justifications, including links. This is the page where the public can also see the timelines on proposed regulations and learn how to make comments during the official process.

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