Profile

Martin is President of ethica CRO Inc. and Veritas IRB Inc. where he is responsible for managing the companies’ business operations and for leading their Human Research Protection Programs. Martin is a member of the Quebec Bar and brings close to twenty years of experience in biotechnology law and research ethics.

Martin was actively involved in the creation of an on-line tutorial for the institutional research ethics boards affiliated to the Quebec Ministry of Health. Martin also chaired the Research Integrity Committee of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and was a member of Canada’s federal research agencies’ Panel on Responsible Conduct of Research (PRCR). He currently acts as a member of the Human Research Standards Organization (HRSO) Technical Steering Committee and contributed to the publication of HRSO’s national standards “Development of a Human Research Protection Program”, “Ethical Review and Oversight of Human Research”, and “Data Governance in Human Research”.

Martin holds a Master’s Degree in Law and Bioethics from McGill University, a LLB and a BA in philosophy from Université de Montréal.

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