The ICTR would like to announce the availability Trials@Hopkins, a new web resource designed to connect potential clinical trial participants with projects in need of volunteers. Trials@Hopkins was created, in collaboration with www.clinicaltrials.gov, to provide a point of contact for people both within and without the university community who want to learn more about federally and privately supported clinical trials at Johns Hopkins.

By increasing the ease with which potential participants can learn about and make contact with recruiting and ongoing studies, the ICTR hopes to support motivated volunteers as they make the important personal choice to participate in a clinical trial.

Trials@Hopkins is available at http://trials.johnshopkins.edu.

Note: If you are a P.I. on a study currently listed on www.clinicaltrials.gov, this is a good opportunity to update your study listing, particularly in terms of contact information.

In cooperation with the Berman Institute of Bioethics, the ICTR is pleased to introduce the Research Ethics Consulting Service (RECS). RECS is a no-cost resource designed to help raise awareness of, and to assist investigators in resolving, issues of ethics in human subjects research. This service is open to everyone in the Johns Hopkins research community, although students and staff are asked to coordinate their requests through a faculty advisor or principal investigator.

If you are currently considering or addressing any ethical issues that are related to the development, conduct, or analysis of a research study at Johns Hopkins and would like to take advantage of the expert assistance and support of the ICTR RECS consultants, you can request their services through the ICTR Connection Request system at ictr.johnshopkins.edu/connection.