The committee adheres to the following local and international laws and guidelines:

  1. Law Regulating Medical Research No. 214 of 2020 and its Executive Regulations No. 927 of 2022.
  2. Nuremberg Code of 1947.
  3. Declaration of Helsinki of 2013.
  4. Belmont Report of 1979.
  5. International Quality Standard for Conducting Clinical Trials on Human Subjects (ICH-GCP).
  6. International Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research Involving Human Subjects of 2016, prepared by the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS).
  7. Regulations of the US Food and Drug Administration.
  8. Guidelines for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, developed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Committee policies