Our aim is to promote and improve the welfare of research participants and the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of research.
Bellberry was formed in 2004 following the recognition of a need for a Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) to service the valuable human and health research being conducted within the private sector.
Bellberry Limited started with one Human Research Ethics Committee offering a monthly meeting to researchers in South Australia. The concept of the private, unaffiliated, non institutional based HREC grew, and today Bellberry NHMRC certified HRECs are able to provide the same high quality, independent ethics reviews with 12 committee’s running up to 3 meetings each week.
Bellberry is Australia’s single largest reviewer of clinical research, providing specialist HREC oversight to 40% of CTN registered clinical trials across all phases of clinical and device trials as well as for social and behavioural studies.
Any surplus funds generated by the activities of the Committees are donated back into the Australian medical research community.
Bellberry Human Research Ethics Committees comply with the strict guidelines for clinical trials as set by the NHMRC and ensure that “all kinds of research involving or impacting on humans conform to the highest standards of ethical practice and academic integrity.”
In 2024, Bellberry was honoured as the national winner of the Telstra Best of Business award for Championing Health highlighting its support of advancing research. It is also the only organisation in Australia to gain the “gold seal” of accreditation from the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs (AAHRPP) for excellence and ethically sound processes in running Human Research Ethics Committees (HRECs).
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