By: Kia Farhang
The University of Minnesota Faculty Senate is calling for an independent, external panel to examine how the University does clinical research on human subjects.
The measure passed in a 67-23 vote Thursday after renewed calls from scholars and bioethicists to re-examine the 2004 suicide of Dan Markingson, a 26-year-old who participated in a clinical drug trial 10 years ago at the University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview.