KMC and Hospital earn full AAHRPP Accreditation (Association for the Accreditation of Human Research protection Program, Inc)

Kasturba Medical College and Hospital, Manipal are engaged in clinical trials for the last 10 years. Many of the trials are global. All these trials are coordinated by the Manipal Centre for Clinical Research (MCCR), Manipal University, Manipal. These trials are approved by Drugs Controller General of India and Institutional Ethics Committee.

To further safeguard the trial subject the MCCR applied for AAHRPP accreditation. As a prerequisite for this application, nearly 26 standard operating procedures and documents, many of which were not there earlier, were created. In the process the team members namely investigators, study coordinators, Human research protection programme members are being trained on these SOPs as well as ICMR guidelines, Schedule Y and ICH and GCP guidelines.

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