Committee Objectives:

  1. Establishing the general principles and controls necessary for dealing with living creatures, parts of them, or their genetic material in research, in light of professional ethics and in a manner consistent with ethical guidelines.
  2. Protecting the rights of the human subjects, including those involved in research, ensuring their safety and dignity, and preventing harm to animals or plants during scientific research.
  3. Protecting researchers’ intellectual property rights.
  4. Implementing ethical standards and controls for biological and medical research and providing research committees at faculties and researchers with these standards.
  5. Periodically evaluating and monitoring submitted research and applying ethical standards and controls for biological and medical research.
  6. Raising awareness of the ethics of biological and medical research among research workers and encouraging related events, such as seminars, discussion groups, and lectures.

Committee Mission:

  1. Develop internal policies and regulations for research and its ethics that are consistent with the Code of Ethics for Research on Living Creatures and its Executive Regulations, without conflicting with university policies.
  2. Ensure that the submitted research complies with the Code of Ethics for Research on Living Creatures.
  3. Ensure the application of the general principles and controls necessary for handling living creatures, parts of them, or their genetic material in research areas, in light of the Code of Ethics for Research on Living Creatures and its Executive Regulations.
  4. Ensure the protection of human rights, safety, and dignity of the research subjects.
  5. Ensure that no harm is caused to animals during scientific research and ensure the safe disposal of dead animals and their waste.
  6. Conduct inspection visits to the experimental animal housing at Pharos University in Alexandria to ensure their compliance with international standards.
  7. Ensure the validity of informed consent procedures.
  8. Monitor the ethics of scientific research in terms of values, honesty, integrity, fairness, equality, and objectivity.
  9. Ensure that minors, persons of diminished legal capacity, persons without legal capacity, or persons with disabilities are not exploited in scientific research in any way.
  10. Review and monitor scientific research and ensure its compliance with scientific research standards and ethics.
  11. Review research plans to recommend their acceptance, further action, or rejection.
  12. Study issues related to violations of scientific research ethics at the university and submit their recommendations to the Vice President for Graduate Studies and Research.
  13. Cooperate with other research ethics committees at research centers, both locally and internationally.
  14. Follow the recommendations of the Nuremberg Committee, the Helsinki Committee, and the World Health Organization in this regard.