Chettinad Academy of Research & Education (CARE), a deemed-to-be University under Section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956, offers inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary high-quality innovative programmes in the broad fields of Life Sciences and related technologies and promotes clinical research in areas of national and local health problems.

The need for Institutional Human Ethics Committee in medical and research establishments resulted from the realization that affirms human rights as a prerogative of all members of society. The CARE faculty, research scholars and postgraduate students conduct several biomedical research and a number of research projects which involves patients and healthy human volunteers. This involves a number of ethical issues that need to be addressed. The Institutional Human Ethics Committee(IHEC) plays the vital role of guiding researchers in the ethical issues associated with their research.

Functions
The major responsibility of IHEC is to protect the rights, safety and well-being of the research participants. The IHEC conducts regular meetings for reviewing the research proposals and gives suggestions to the investigators to make the research ethical before approving them. All research projects on humans should get the approval of the ethics committee before starting their study. IHEC functions as per ICMR guidelines 2006.

Composition
The Institutional Human Ethics Committee members: