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The VolREthics initiative to protect the well-being of healthy volunteers in biomedical research

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  1. INSERM, Paris, France

    François Bompart & François Hirsch

  2. Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative, Geneva, Switzerland

    François Bompart

  3. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Jill A. Fisher

  4. Division of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

    Elizabeth Allen

  5. The Global Health Network, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Elizabeth Allen

  6. Department of Physiologic Science, Clinical Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique

    Esperança Sevene

  7. Forum for Ethics Review Committees in India, Mumbai, India

    Nandini Kumar

  8. Institute for Clinical Research, Shah Alam, Malaysia

    Chun Keat Chew

  9. Fundación Huésped, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Valeria Fink

  10. European Network of Research Ethics Committees Network, Bonn, Germany

    Dirk Lanzerath

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V.F. has participated in expert discussion groups for Merck, Sharp and Dohme. All other authors declare no competing interests.

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Bompart, F., Fisher, J.A., Allen, E. et al. The VolREthics initiative to protect the well-being of healthy volunteers in biomedical research. Nat Med 29, 2393–2394 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-023-02490-6

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