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The IRB stands for this organization's title
What is the Institutional Review Board?
James Lind sought to find a cure for this condition, a disease long plaguing sailors caused by a vitamin C deficiency.
What is Scurvy?
Trial in which the safety of a new drug is tested in a group of 20-80 people. Investigators look at the safety of the drug, and how it affects the body.
What is a Phase I trial?
This number in your glasses or contacts prescription, refers to the lens power needed to correct nearsightedness or farsightedness.
What is sphere?
This person drove an ice cream truck during college.
Who is Mark?
Form 483 of the FDA means what to a clinical trials team about a recent FDA audit?
What is No Findings?
This international ethical and scientific quality standard for trials that involve human subjects is consistent with principles that have their origin in the Declaration of Helsinki
What is Good Clinical Practice?
After a medication is approved, researchers might look at how it works for other patients with the condition, and look at long-term benefits and risks in this type of clinical trial
What is a phase IV trial?
This most common type of glaucoma occurs when eye pressure rises due to a blockage in the drainage angle.
What is POAG, or Open Angle Glaucoma?
This BCT staff member's car, Frank Sonata, got stolen in May of 2024. Frank was involved in a helicopter chase at the time of the theft.
Who is Peyton?
This Statement of Investigator is an agreement signed by the PI to provide certain information to the sponsor and ensure that they will comply with FDA regulations.
What is Form 1572?
These airmen, on whom unethical clinical trials that infected 600 men with syphilis without their consent were conducted, became the first black pilots in the U.S. military.
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
What is a Phase 2 trial?
This condition, also called Surfer's Eye, appears as a pink colored growth that starts in the clear conjunctiva of the eye.
What is Pterygium?
This staff member once burst into the second office in the morning, crying (really!!) over a fantasy book she was reading! Hint: one of two fantasy lovers in our midst...
Who is Daniela?
This FDA regulation specifies the requirements for electronic signatures and records, ensuring the safety, authenticity, and reliability of these
What is 21 CFR Part 11?
What is the Informed Consent Form?
Toxicity of a new drug or procedure are tested on animals or cells to determine whether the treatment may be tested on people.
What are preclinical studies?
This is found in charts of patients who have had cataract removal and intraocular lenses replaced to improve their vision.
This person had a horse named Cookie when growing up.
Who is Julie?
This collection of essential documents serves as a record of the conduct of a clinical trial at a specific research site.
This day is National Clinical Trials Day.
What is May 20th?
In this clinical trial we look at how the drug compares to the standard treatment for the condition. Often, 300-3,000 people participate in these trials
What is a Phase 3 trial?
This is the unabbreviated version of the acronym MIGS, a group of procedures our doctors perform!
What is Minimally Invasive Glaucoma Surgery?
This staff member will be welcoming a little one into her family in 9 months!
Congratulations, Hanna!!!