Our assistant for classifying and categorising your research projects, the Categoriser, is now up to date. It can be used again for research projects with in vitro diagnostics (IVD) in accordance with the revision of the Ordinance on Clinical Trials with Medical Devices (ClinO-MD) of 26 May 2022. For more information, see the infographic and case studies on our website. 

The statistical report "Human Research in Switzerland 2021" and the summary report "Activities of the Research Ethics Committees 2021" are now available in the "Downloads" section of our website.

These reports describe biomedical research in Switzerland governed by the Human Research Act for the year 2021. The information comes from BASEC, which is managed by the umbrella organization of research ethics committees (swissethics), and from the individual activity reports of the cantonal research ethics committees (EKOS, EKNZ, KEK-BE, KEK-ZH, CCER, CER-VD and CE-TI).