Vineela Nekkanti
Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, India
Title: Challenges in Implementing Good Clinical Practice (GCP) Guidelines and their Mitigations
Biography
Biography: Vineela Nekkanti
Abstract
Good Clinical Practice (GCP) is a set of guidelines for biomedical research, which encompasses the design, conduct, termination, audit, analysis, reporting and documentation of the studies involving human subjects. It primarily establishes the two main principles i.e. Protection of rights of human subjects and authenticity of biomedical data generated. After the breach of subject rights during human experiments such as Nazi war crime, Human radiation experiments and Thalidomide tragedy, these guidelines came into existence in 1996, which are ubiquitously implemented in clinical research. Though the regulatory bodies maintain stringent norms to implement these guidelines, there are many discrepancies associated with it such as lack of professional training, safety reporting, Informed Consent Document (ICD) administration and record keeping, which thereby depleting the standards of Clinical trials and authenticity of data generated. Hence to overcome such limitations, certain measures have to be taken for the proper conduct of clinical trials.