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Summary of FY2008 Human Subjects Database


Contributing Research Facilities

There are 44 research organizations that reported data included in this year's database. Eleven of these are DOE sites and 33 are non-DOE sites (such as hospitals, universities, or research institutes) receiving DOE funding or other sites conducting studies related to DOE activities.

The statistics section presented below represents only active projects in the HSRD. Active projects are those that have current fiscal-year IRB approval, even if they have received no funding or reported no human subject activity in the current fiscal year. Inactive projects include those that were temporarily suspended for any reason or otherwise out of compliance. Other sections of the HSRD include data on all projects, both active as well as inactive projects, reported by individual sites and research organizations.

Number of Research Projects
(Total Number of Projects: 341)

Number of Research Projects
  • Seventy-seven percent of the projects were conducted at DOE facilities and 23 percent were conducted at non-DOE facilities.
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), with 62, had the largest number active projects, followed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) with 59.
  • Twenty-six projects were reported as being international. The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), as part of the Russian Health Studies Program, and the Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF), in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, which studies health impacts of radiation exposure in atomic bomb survivors, reported the largest numbers of foreign subjects.
  • Fifteen projects were part of the Former Worker Medical Screening Program (FWP).
Funding for Human Subjects Research
(Total Research Funding: $100,815,905)

Research Funding
  • Funding for human subjects research includes only those projects receiving federal funding. Funding from private sources is not included.
  • Funding from the DOE was $67 million and funding from other federal sources was $34 million.
  • The RERF studies jointly funded by DOE and the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare accounted for 14% of DOE-reported funding.
  • International projects, including the RERF project mentioned above, received $24 million in funding.
  • FWP projects received $15 million of funding from the DOE.
Number of Human Subjects
(Total Human Subjects: 1,092,499)

Number of Human Subjects
  • A total of 1,092,499 human subjects were involved in Department of Energy (DOE) funded, site-related, or worker-related projects during FY2008.
  • About 76% of the number of human subjects were reported by DOE facilities and 24% were reported by non-DOE facilities.
  • Of the 341 projects reported in FY2008, 199 projects had human subject participation.
  • The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has two projects that combined involve 650,000 human subjects.
  • In FY2008, international projects involved a total of 44,365 human subjects.
  • FWP projects included 64,678 human subjects.