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Introduction into the

Bioresearch Monitoring Program


Presented by Janet H. Cooper, BS MT, MFS
Consumer Safety Officer
Division of Bioresearch Monitoring
Office of Compliance
Center for Devices and Radiological Health

Objectives
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Explain the objectives of the FDAs


Bioresearch Monitoring Program
Recognize the specific roles involved in
device clinical trials
Describe the different compliance programs
Identify the FDA regulations that apply to
BIMO
Understand where to obtain additional
information

Presentation Topics
z Background
z Program Objectives
z Program Functions
z Inspection Programs
z Applicable Regulations
z Guidance and Information

BIMO Program Background


Known as BIMO
z 1975-1976 Congressional Hearings
z Directed FDA to establish an
agency-wide program
z Encompass all operational bureaus
& regulated products
z Authorized $16M & 606 FTEs

BIMO Program Background


A comprehensive, agency-wide
program of on-site inspections and
data audits designed to monitor all
aspects of the conduct and
reporting of FDA-regulated
research

BIMO Program Background


The BIMO program monitors:
Sponsors/Contract Research
Organizations (CROs)/Monitors
Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)
Clinical Investigators (CIs)
Nonclinical Laboratories

BIMO Program Objectives


z Protect the rights, safety, and

welfare of human research subjects


z Assure the quality, reliability, and
integrity of data collected

BIMO Program Functions


z Audit clinical data
z Inspect ongoing clinical research
z Inspect nonclinical laboratories
z Inspect IRBs
z Educate and train
z Implement FDAs Application

Integrity Policy

What may Prompt an Inspection


of Device Research?
z New Product or Indication
z New Technology
z Complaints
z History of non-compliance
z Routine Surveillance

BIMO Inspection Programs


z Routine

Surveillance
Compliance follow-up
z Directed

Data audits of device submissions


z For Cause

Investigate problems
Investigate complaints

BIMO Inspection Programs


Inspection Classifications
z NAI No Action Indicated
z VAI Voluntary Action Indicated
z OAI Official Action Indicated

BIMO Compliance Programs


z Clinical Investigators
z Sponsors, Contract Research

Organizations, and Monitors


z Institutional Review Boards
z Good Laboratory Practices
www.fda.gov/ora/cpgm/default.htm#bimo

Clinical Investigator (CI)


An individual who actually conducts a
clinical investigation, under whose
immediate direction the test article
is administered, dispensed, or
used.

Sponsor
z Takes responsibility for and initiates

a clinical investigation, but does not


actually conduct the investigation
z May be an individual, company,
government agency, academic
institution, private organization

Monitor
z Individual designated by a sponsor

or contract research organization to


oversee the progress of an
investigation
z Must be qualified by training and
experience to monitor the device
investigation

Contract Research Organization (CRO)


A person who assumes, as an
independent contractor with the
sponsor, one or more of the
obligations of a sponsor

Institutional Review Board (IRB)


Any board, committee, or other group
formally designated by an
institution to review, to approve the
initiation of, and conduct periodic
review of, biomedical research
involving human subjects

Sponsor-Investigator (SI)
An individual who both initiates and
actually conducts, alone or with
others, an investigation, and under
whose immediate direction the
investigational product is
administered, dispensed, or used.
The obligations include both those
of a sponsor and an investigator

Non-Clinical Laboratories
Animal laboratories where preclinical studies are conducted

FDA Regulations
that apply to BIMO
z 21 CFR 50: Protection of Human

Subjects
z 21 CFR 54: Financial Disclosure
z 21 CFR 56: Institutional Review Boards
(IRB)
z 21 CFR 58: Good Laboratory Practice
for Non-Clinical Laboratory Studies
(GLP)

FDA Regulations
that apply to BIMO
z 21 CFR 809:

In Vitro Diagnostic
Products (IVD)
z 21 CFR 812: Investigational Device
Exemption (IDE)

Guidance and Information


z Computerized Systems Used in

Clinical Investigations, May 2007


z Protecting the Rights, Safety, and
Welfare of Study Subjects
Supervisory Responsibilities of
Investigators, May 2007

Guidance and Information


z The Review and Inspection of

Premarket Approval Applications under


the Bioresearch Monitoring Program,
January 2008
z Guidance for Sponsors, Clinical
Investigators, and IRBs Data
Retention When Subjects Withdraw
from FDA-regulated clinical trials,
October 2008

Guidance and Information


z Draft Guidance

Protecting the Rights, Safety, and Welfare


of Study Subjects Supervisory
Responsibilities of Investigators
z Information Sheets

Frequently Asked Questions About IRB


Review of Medical Devices
Significant and Non-significant Risk
Medical Device Studies

For More Information


z FDA Home Page www.fda.gov
z Center for Devices and Radiological

Health www.fda.gov/cdrh/
z Device Advice
www.fda.gov/cdrh/devadvice
z CDRH BIMO site
www.fda.gov/cdrh/bimo/html

For More Information


z FDA Good Clinical Practices

www.fda.gov/oc/gcp/default.htm
z Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
Main Page
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/c
drh/cfdocs/cfcfr/cfrsearch.cfmw
z FDA Consumer Magazine
www.fda.gov/fdac/

Summary
z Objectives of the BIMO program
z Specific roles in clinical trials
z Four compliance programs
z FDA regulations applicable to

BIMO
z Additional information

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