Annual Award

Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, for "BRAIN, Biomedical Research and Assurance Information Network." BRAIN is a web-based application that supports creating, routing, reviewing, signing, amending, reporting, and auditing research protocols submitted to the Baylor College of Medicine Institutional Review Board.

Award of Excellence

• Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, Boston, MA, for QACT, Quality Assurance Office for Clinical Trials, for its system to ensure protection of human subjects.
• McGuire VA Medical Center; McGuire Research Institute, Richmond, VA, for the development of software called MIRB, to record and to retrieve details about protocols and IRB actions.
• National Institute of Mental Health, Intramural Research Program, Bethesda, MD, for CORE, Central Office for Recruitment and Evaluation, for its efforts to improve human subjects protections for patients participating in studies at the National Institute of Mental Health.
• Washington University School of Medicine Human Studies Committee, St Louis, MO, for its comprehensive education program geared toward anyone conducting or reviewing research at the University.
  

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