Who guards the guardian? A critical analysis of the legal legitimacy of institutional review boards
Wenmay Rei
National Yang-Ming University, Division of Law and Policy, Institute of Public Health, Taipei, Taiwan
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Ethical review: what place for law, regulation and governance?
Kay Wheat
Nottingham Trent University, Law, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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Ethical review board "light" for research projects using codified human tissues
Hans-Anton Lehr 1; Stephan Schaefer 1; Michel Burnier 2
1University of Lausanne, CHUV, Department of Pathology, Lausanne, Switzerland; 2University of Lausanne, CHUV, President, Ethical Review Board, Lausanne, Switzerland
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II. Ethical review boards and research

Systematic distrust promoting trust? The ethics committee and biobank research
Bjørn K. Myskja
Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU, Department of Philosophy, Trondheim, Norway
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Global standards for Research Ethics Committees: Presentation of Draft document and request for feedback
Abha Saxena
World Health Organization, Research Policy and Cooperation, 20 Avenue Appia, Geneva, Switzerland
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The influence of the EU-directive on the quality of non-commercial clinical trials in Sweden
Agneta Cruz Galdo
Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska Trial Alliance, Stockholm, Sweden
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The minimal risk controversy
Michael Yeo
Laurentian University, Philosophy, Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, Canada
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The ethics of human volunteer studies involving experimental exposure to pesticides: Unanswered dilemmas
Leslie London 1; David C. Coggon 2; Angelo Moretto 3; Martin Wilks 4; Peter Westerholm 5; Claudio Colosio 6
1University of Cape Town, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health, Cape Town, South Africa; 2University of Southampton, School of Medicine, MRC Epidemiology Resource Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom; 3University of Milan, Department of Environmental and Occuaptional Health, International Centre of Pesticide and Health Risk Prevention, Milan, Italy; 4Swiss Centre for Applied Human Toxicology (SCAHT), Director, Basel, Switzerland; 5Uppsala University, Department of Medical Sciences, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Uppsala, Sweden; 6University of Milan, Department of Occupational Health, International Centre of Rural Health, Milan, Italy
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Informed consent and ethic committees in the midst of a natural disaster
Lior Zeller 1; Carmi Bartal 2; Alan Jotkowitz 1
1Soroka University Medical Center/BGU, Medicine, Beersheva, Israel; 2Soroka University Medical Center/BGU, Emergency Medicine, Beersheva, Israel
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The diverse ethics of translational research
Neema Sofaer 1; Nir Eyal 2
1King’s College London, Centre of Medical Law and Ethics, School of Law, London, United Kingdom; 2Harvard University, Program in Ethics and Health, Dept of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
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Application of ethical matrix for ethical review of research projects in public health. A European prospective
Ioana Rodica Ispas
University of Bucharest, Center for Applied Ethics, Bucharest, Romania
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Rethinking ethical boundaries of grounded theory approach
Barbara Potrata
University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
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The role of ELSI research in science projects
Choon Key Chekar
Cesagen, Cardiff University, Cesagen, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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Judging or improving research proposals? The meeting of two logics in ethical review meetings
Jean Philippe de Jong ; Dick Willems ; Myra van Zwieten
Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Medical Ethics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Demanding informed consent from critically ill patients may result in discrimination: A case report from a study on patients with ruptured aortic aneurysm
Martin Björck
Uppsala University, Dep of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
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The trouble with ethics: refocusing analysis
Karolyn White1; Mianna Lotz2
1Macquarie University, Research Office, North Ryde, Australia; 2Macquarie University, Philosophy, North Ryde, Australia
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What kind of projects medical research ethics committees judge?
Elina Hemminki 1; Jorma Virtanen 2; Piret Veerus 2
1National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland; 2University of Helsinki, Department of Public Health, Helsinki, Finland
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Biobank research based on presumed consent
John-Arne Skolbekken
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Social work and health science, Trondheim, Norway
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