Letter to HHS Secretary Regarding Failure of OHRP to Launch Investigation of University of Minnesota’s Human Research Protection Program
View HHS’s September 18, 2015, response.
Public Citizen expressed alarm regarding the Office for Human Research Protections’ (OHRP) recent decisions (a) not to launch a formal investigation into the human subjects protection program at the University of Minnesota (UM); and (b) not to require UM to suspend enrollment in all ongoing human subjects research, particularly high-risk clinical trials, that had inadequate review by the UM institutional review board.