Research Ethics Committee (MODREC)

Research involving human participants undertaken, funded, or sponsored by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) must meet acceptable ethical standards, which are upheld by the MOD Research Ethics Committee (MODREC).

MoDREC will contain a mixture of expert and lay members and will be supported by a Secretariat. It will act independently, with the majority of voting members independent of the MoD. For further information read the MoDREC Terms of Reference.

JSP 536 (Ethical Conduct and Scrutiny in MoD research Involving Human Participants) sets out the conditions for all investigators conducting research involving human participants in MoD research, both clinical and non-clinical. It also sets out the MoD's process for the assessment of research protocols.