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There are 2 Commonwealth Acts providing a regulatory framework to prohibit certain unacceptable practices including human cloning, and to regulate uses of excess human embryos created through assisted reproductive technology.
Licence holders are responsible for ensuring that their organisations comply with licence conditions. Each person who is identified in the licence conditions as an authorised person must be fully informed about the licence and its conditions and the requirements of the legislation and any corresponding state or territory law.
Information on NHMRC's requirements, Standards and Guidelines and policies is available on Funding Agreement and NHMRC Policy and Priorities. Following is information about different laws, approval requirements and obligations applicable to NHMRC funded research.
Organ and tissue transplantation is an effective and well-established treatment, with the potential to drastically improve the health and life of recipients. However, despite increasing success rates and the broadening of recipient eligibility and organ suitability criteria, the demand for organs and tissues continues to exceed their availability.
Section 19(3) of the Research Involving Human Embryos Act 2002 (the Act) requires the NHMRC Licensing Committee to table six-monthly reports in either House of Parliament on or before 30 June and 31 December each year, and at any other time as required by either House of Parliament. The reports must include information about both the operation of the Act and licences issued under the Act.
When working with research that involves human embryos created by assisted reproductive technology (ART), it can be difficult to determine if a licence is required for training and quality assurance activities.
RAO Alert - Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) 2024 Genomics Health Futures Mission Grant Opportunity open for applications
The following is a guide on how to enable and use Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) for your Human Research Ethics Application (HREA) account.
The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) recognises that our staff and stakeholders value their privacy, and we make privacy a part of our everyday business. This means we incorporate privacy into strategic planning and take a 'privacy by design' approach to integrating privacy management into our projects and practices.
As part of performing its functions, NHMRC may record video and audio of meetings it holds and obtain auto-generated transcripts of the meeting.The personal information collected may include name, email address, phone number, digital images, video and audio recordings of you, text (in chats), information about you, including your participating in the meeting and your opinion on the matters discussed during the meeting.
NHMRC staff are employed under the Public Service Act 1999. All APS employees are required to uphold the APS Values, Employment Principles and APS Code of Conduct.
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is a lifelong condition characterised by severe neurodevelopmental impairments (with/without physical impairments) that results from prenatal alcohol exposure.
MRFF – Emerging Priorities and Consumer Driven Research Initiative – 2024 Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 Grant Opportunity