Sponsor-investigator

In Roles & organizations

A sponsor-investigator is one person who both initiates a trial and personally conducts it, taking on the duties of both roles. This is common in academic and investigator-initiated research. It means one individual carries both the sponsor obligations, such as safety reporting to the authority, and the site obligations.

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