Use of Human Subjects in Research  

Case Study  

Blood Samples 

Choice A.

You encourage your colleague to send the samples as soon as possible. You plan to begin analyzing them as soon as they arrive.

This is not a good choice.

If you make this choice, based solely on the information presented, you will run the risk of:

1. Violating the rights of the subjects,
   
   
2. Being in non-compliance with the requirements of the Federal regulations (45 CFR 46) and the Stanford FWA.
   
   

The research that your colleague is asking you to do -- research analyses on previously collected human samples -- is considered research with human subjects and is covered under the FWA. Before you agree to analyze the samples, you need more information about them.