A new bill going through the legislative process in Germany aims to make the country a more attractive location for clinical research by streamlining the system governing ethics committees and reorganizing the competencies of Germany’s two regulators, BfArM and the Paul-Ehrlich-Institute (PEI).
Germany Courts Clinical Trials With Regulator Reshuffle & New Federal Ethics Committee
Plans to rejig two regulators’ roles and streamline the ethics committee system have drawn some criticism.
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