Institutional Ethics Committee is an independent body constituted of medical, non-medical, scientific, and non-scientific members whose responsibility is to ensure the protection of the rights, safety, and well-being of human subjects involved in the trial by, among other things, reviewing, approving, and providing a continuing review of trial protocols and amendments.

Mamata Fertility Hospital, formerly known as Infertility Institute and Research Center, is actively involved and promotes research activity in the field of reproductive medicine and gynaecology & obstetrics.

The committee is composed of a panel of distinguished luminaries in various professional and social fields. The committee is chaired by Dr. S. Shivaji, also the Director of L. V. Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad and who has been declared to be among the top scientists in the world.

Our IEC reviews every research proposal and evaluates the possible risks to the subjects, expected benefits and adequacy of documentation for ensuring privacy, confidentiality and justice.

In India, Ethics Committee for Research on Human Subjects presently functions according to the requirements laid down in Schedule Y and is guided by the ICH GCP guidelines for Clinical Practice, ethical principles set forth in the Declaration of Helsinki and the Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research on Human Subjects laid down by Indian Council of Medical Research.

If you are interested in obtaining an IEC approval for your prospective research involving human participants, or before you publish your case report or any other study in a reputed journal, which requires IEC approval