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Gretchen Bowker will lead dietary supplement session at 2017 RAPS Regulatory Convergence
Gretchen Bowker, Co-founder and COO of Pearl IRB, will lead a session of the Health-Related Foods Track at this year’s RAPS Convergence in National Harbor, MD. The session, titled "Functional Foods and Dietary Supplements: Manufacturing, Claims, and...
VisionTech Partners, Pearl Pathways form alliance to fuel growth in Indiana’s Life Sciences startups
Pearl Pathways announces a partnership with VisionTech Partners, the parent of Indiana’s most active angel investing group, to fuel Indiana's life science startup community. The Pearl Pathways-VisionTech Partners alliance will focus on three essential...
Experienced biopharma leader joins Pearl IRB
Pearl IRB announces the hiring of Mark Slisz as a Senior Advisor serving biopharmaceutical, medical device, and diagnostic life science companies. Slisz brings over 35 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry to Pearl Pathways. His experience...
Making sense of review board jargon: single, central, institutional, and independent IRB
Note: Pearl IRB updated this blog on August 9, 2021, and we will continue to update this in the future as necessary. Formal review procedures for human subject studies were established in reaction to unethical research practices in the 20th century. The Code of...
NIH accelerating the use of genomics in clinical care
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is awarding $18.9 million towards research aiming to accelerate the use of genome sequencing in clinical care. The new awards will verify that the genomic medicine can be applied to all individuals and groups...