School of Medicine, UNAM

General Secretariat
BIOETHICS COMMITTEE


3. GENERAL POLICIES

3.1 All the research projects carried out in the School of Medicine that have ethical implications must be evaluated by the Bioethics Committee.

3.2 In order to be evaluated, all research projects must be accompanied by their research protocols.

3.3 The main Researcher in charge of the project must belong to the School of Medicine.

3.4 The Bioethics Committee will give its technical opinion on the ethical aspects of the research proposed through a review of the risks, benefits and letter of informed consent, among other factors, contained in the projects and their components, in order to guarantee the well-being and rights of the research subjects.

3.5 The Bioethics Committee can issue a technical opinion with respect to the aspects of biosafety of the installations, the material and the methods involved in order to guarantee the protection of the physical and biological integrity of occupationally exposed staff and the research subjects, the community and the environment.

3.6 Researchers belonging to other institutions who wish their research projects to be evaluated must contact the President of the Bioethics Committee.

 

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