Composition of the IRB

The NUS-IRB has a total of 20 members. 16 members are from various NUS faculties, 2 members are non-NUS affiliated lay-persons and 2 members are non-NUS affiliated scientists.

The current Chairs of the NUS-IRB are:

     NUS-IRB Chair (Biomedical)      NUS-IRB Chair (Non-Biomedical)  
Name: Professor Anselm Mak Professor Lorenz Goette 
Tel: (65) 6772 2598 (65) 6516 3947 
Email:  mdcam@nus.edu.sg ecslfg@nus.edu.sg 

 

Every NUS-IRB review meeting shall have a quorum of 5 members, with varying backgrounds to promote complete and adequate review of the research protocols submitted. 

Disciplines represented in the NUS-IRB are as follows:

Discipline of Endodontics, Operative Dentistry and Prosthodontics Department of Biomedical Engineering
Department of Medicine Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health
Faculty of LawDuke-NUS Medical School 
Department of Nursing Department of Philosophy
Department of Psychology
Department of Psychological Medicine
Department of English Language and Literature
Department of Pharmacy
Department of Economics
2 non-NUS affiliated scientists

2 non-NUS affiliated lay-persons