This book is a comprehensive and timely compilation of strategy, methods, and implementation of a proof of concept modified quality module of Good Laboratory Practices (GLP). This text provides a historical overview of GLP and related standards of quality assurance practices in clinical testing laboratories and basic research settings. It specifically discusses the need and challenges in audit, documentation, and strategies for its implications in system-dependent productivity-striving research laboratories. It also describes the importance of periodic training of study directors and scholars for standardization in research processes. This book describes documents required at various time points for a successful Ph.D. and post-doc tenure, faculty training, and entire lab establishments. Various other areas, including academic social responsibility and quality assurance in the developing world, lab orientations and communication, digitization data accuracy, auditability, and back traceability, have also been discussed. This book will be preferred by principal investigators, research scholars, and industrial research centers globally.
From the foreword by Ratan Tata, India
“This book will guide students and professionals in quality assurance practices related to clinical research labs. The historical research and fundamental principles make it a good tool in clinical research environments. The country needs such a compilation to increase the application of domestic capabilities and technology.”
