Key governance procedures and contacts for research studies involving animals, or humans, their tissue and/or data. Research governance applies to any health or social care related research that involves humans, their tissue, and/or their data. It is defined as the broad range of regulations, principles and standards of good practice that exist to achieve and continuously improve research quality across all aspects of healthcare in the UK and worldwide. All health research involving humans, their tissue or data requires a sponsor; this is based on the UK Research Governance Framework for Health and Social Care Research. The sponsor is not the funder; it is the institution that takes responsibility for the overall management and conduct of a study and ensures that, for example: the project is legal, feasible and safe insurance and indemnity are in place correct approvals are in place. The sponsor is also not responsible for giving an ethical opinion. All research studies conducted by researchers affiliated with CMVM will have to obtain ethical opinion separately from sponsorship. This article was published on 2024-08-21
