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Research Ethics

ALL RESEARCH PERFORMED WITHIN THE SCHOOL OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND IMMUNOLOGY INVOLVING ANIMALS OR HUMAN SUBJECTS IS SUBJECT TO ETHICAL APPROVAL FROM THE APPROPRIATE TCD RESEARCH ETHICS COMMITTEE (REC).

Note that studies that include other sites outside TCD may also require ethical approval from those sites.

• Animal work - apply to animal REC:
  https://www.tcd.ie/comparativemedicine/
• Use of primary human cells from non-vulnerable adult controls
  - buffy coats from Irish Blood Transfusion Service -apply to B&I REC:
  https://www.tcd.ie/Biochemistry/local/ethics_committee.php (local access only)
  - healthy donor blood for level 1 use -apply to B&I REC:
  https://www.tcd.ie/Biochemistry/local/ethics_committee.php (local access only)
  - healthy donor nasal or buccal swabs for level 1 use -apply to B&I REC:
  https://www.tcd.ie/Biochemistry/local/ethics_committee.php (local access only)
• Patient blood and tissue samples for level 2/3 use (approval from appropriate Hospital REC and FEMS REC required: https://ems.tcd.ie/local/faculty-ethics-committee.php (local access only)
• For joint studies with SJH/AMNCH apply to Joint Research Ethics Committee (JREC; Level 2): http://www.healthsciences.tcd.ie/research/ethics.php