The Shared Ethical Responsibility of Medically and Non-medically Qualified Experts in Human Drug Development Teams.
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SUBMITTER: Kerpel-Fronius S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6130227 | biostudies-literature | 2018
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The Shared Ethical Responsibility of Medically and Non-medically Qualified Experts in Human Drug Development Teams.
Kerpel-Fronius Sandor S Becker Sander S Barrett Jane J Brun Johan J Carlesi Roberto R Chan Anthony A Collia Luis F LF Dubois Dominique J DJ Kleist Peter P Koski Greg G Kurihara Chieko C Laranjeira Luis F LF Schenk Johanna J Silva Honorio H
Frontiers in pharmacology 20180903
The complexity of developing and applying increasingly sophisticated new medicinal products has led to the participation of many non-medically qualified scientists in multi-disciplinary non-clinical and clinical drug development teams world-wide. In this introductory paper to the "IFAPP International Ethics Framework for Pharmaceutical Physicians and Medicines Development Scientists" it is argued that all members of such multidisciplinary teams must share the scientific and ethical responsibilit ...[more]
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