NIH Collaboratory leadership and NIH Collaboratory Trial Principal Investigators have responded to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) proposed rule to allow for a waiver or alteration of informed consent.

“We applaud the proposed rule to allow for a waiver or alteration of informed consent for clinical investigations posing no more than minimal risk to a human participant and including appropriate safeguards.

We agree about the broad benefits described in the proposed rule—healthcare advances, reduction in burden from harmonizing FDA’s regulations with the Common Rule, and reduced burden and costs for the IRB…”

The full letter is available for download and includes the list of signatories.