The Changing Regulatory Landscape and Genetic Research

Pearl O’Rourke, MD, is Director of Human Research Affairs at Partners HealthCare Systems and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Dr. O’Rourke gave a plenary speech at an OHRP sponsored RCF in Augusta, GA, in which she discussed revisions to the Common Rule and other regulations and what these changes might mean for genetic and genomic research in the future.