News & Insights

Bellberry Celebrates 20 Years at Bio Korea

Bellberry Limited, Australia’s largest reviewer of human research is celebrating its 20th year of operations. The company is an independent not-for-profit organisation providing research ethics services across Australia. Bellberry is driven by two key objectives, to protect the welfare of research participants and to improve the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of research. It provides high-quality, […]

Latest Podcast Episode – From Lab To Life

In this episode of From Lab to Life, we hear the insights from some of the smartest researchers in the country about how they have succeeded in their careers. In ‘Speaking From Experience’ we hear from Laureate Professor Ingrid Scheffer, Professor Doug Hilton, Emeritus Professor Ian Frazer, Professors Marnie Blewitt, Kim Jacobson and Di Yu […]

Nominations Open: ACTA Trial of the Year Awards 2024

Nominations are open for the Australian Clinical Trials Alliance (ACTA) Trial of the Year Awards. These awards celebrate the incredible Australians propelling our healthcare system forward through groundbreaking clinical trials. Nominations close at midnight on Friday 29 March 2024. For more information see the ACTA website here

New Podcast Episode – From Lab To Life

Bellberry’s award winning work is supported by a dedicated, talented and growing team. In this episode of From Lab to Life, we meet some of the members of the Bellberry team and find out why they do what they do. They give us an insight into the organisation, the work they do and what gets […]

Participant Engagement Grant Funding – applications closing soon!

Bellberry is pleased once again to offer our grant program to support participant engagement at scientific meetings.  Conference organisers can apply to Bellberry for funding to create or enhance participant-centric programs to enable the participant voice to be represented and heard at their meetings. The ultimate aim of this grant funding program is to improve […]

New podcast episode – From Lab To Life

International Symposium Full Report Released

In June 2023 Bellberry were delighted to host the “Towards a Coordinated Approach for Managing Accelerated Patient Access to Potentially Beneficial Medicines: Balancing Patient, Regulator, Health Technology Assessment (HTA), Payer, and Other Stakeholder Needs” international workshop in Adelaide. This event brought together over a global delegation from over 20 nations including the US, UK, Europe, Canada, Singapore, […]

Happy New Year!

2024 promises to be an exciting year at Bellberry as we celebrate our 20 year anniversary. Please visit our Anniversary homepage for details of some of the exciting activities and initiatives planned to mark this special milestone, including our monthly podcast series. Business will of course be as usual with HREC meetings being held every […]

Christmas & New Year 2023/24 meeting and submission dates

Day Meeting Date Submission Date Wednesday 6 December 22 November Wednesday 13 December 29 November Wednesday 20 December 6 December Bellberry office closure: Saturday 23 December 2023 to Tuesday 2 January 2024 Wednesday 3 January 13 December Wednesday 10 January 20 December Wednesday 17 January 3 January Wednesday 24 January 10 January HREC meetings are […]

Quality Update – December 2023

The Quality Update for December can be found here. Content includes updates to some of our Bellberry Application (BA) and Monitoring of Approved Research (MAR) documentation, electronic HREC indemnity reminders, regulatory updates and more. Please contact the Quality team at quality@bellberry.com.au if you have any queries regarding these updates.

Bellberrys latest podcast episode is live!

ACTA International Clinical Trials Symposium 2023

We’re delighted to announce that Bellberry is the gold sponsor for the upcoming ACTA Clinical Symposium 2023 taking place on 27 – 29 November in Melbourne. As a not-for-profit organization dedicated to maintaining ethical standards in human research, we’re proud to support an event that brings together the best minds in clinical research. The Symposium  […]

Christmas & New Year 2023/24 meeting and submission dates

Day Meeting Date Submission Date Wednesday 6 December 22 November Wednesday 13 December 29 November Wednesday 20 December 6 December Bellberry office closure: Saturday 23 December 2023 to Tuesday 2 January 2024 Wednesday 3 January 13 December Wednesday 10 January 20 December Wednesday 17 January 3 January Wednesday 24 January 10 January HREC meetings are […]

Bellberry travel grant awarded to researcher focused on disability and inclusion

Sociologist, lawyer and Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, Dr Michelle King, was yesterday awarded the Bellberry Travel Grant at the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law (AABHL) Conference 2023 in Brisbane. The travel grant will assist Dr King to present a paper in Chicago at the International Association for the Scientific Study […]

ASCEPT 2023 ASM

  Bellberry are proud to be the principal sponsor of the ASCEPT (Australasian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists and Toxicologists) annual scientific meeting taking place on 20 – 23 November in Sydney. The COVID outbreak has shown that major scientific advances enabled the world to rapidly adopt cutting edge solutions to the global pandemic […]