COVID-19: Update On Clinical Research Precautions

Dicle Dogan and Fatma Sevde Tan, Gun + Partners

On 25 July 2020, the Turkish Medicines and Medical Devices Agency published an update to its announcement titled Precautions to be taken in Clinical Research due to the COVID-19 pandemic (Turkish language) that was originally published on 20 March 2020. The update reflects feedback collected from the industry.

The updated announcement states the following:

• Applications to conduct online meetings between research personnel during the pandemic can now be made to the Agency five working days before the meeting, instead of 30 days.
• Within the scope of clinical trials, face-to-face trainings may now be held online.