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Useful Information

Download brochures and guides on clinical research participation, tissue donation, and how unexpected health findings are managed during research studies.

Last updated 8 July 2026

Research Participant Brochures

The Research Participant Brochures provide an overview on Clinical Research, Clinical Research Participation and useful contact information.

Tissue Donor’s Brochure

Human tissue refers to human biological material such as blood, organs or parts of organs. They are sometimes used for research purposes. The Tissue Donor’s Brochure answers the commonly asked questions on donating human tissue for research.

Information Sheet on the Management of Incidental Findings

Incidental Finding is a finding that has potential health or reproductive importance to the individual research subject and is discovered in the course of conducting research but is unrelated to the purposes, objectives or variables of the research studies. The Information Sheet provides an overview of how incidental findings are managed.

Lifewise Magazine Feature Article "Tried & Tested"

Lifewise speaks to Dr Goh Boon Cher (Senior Consultant, Hematology-Oncology, National University Hospital), and Dr Allan Harkness (Dean of the Asia Graduate School of Theology) and a lay member of three Singapore medical/research ethics committees in Singapore to find out more of clinical research.