Bellberry Limited
Website: https://bellberry.com.au/
Member Contact: Leanne Weekes
Position: Director of Research & Policy
Industry: Government & Not-For-Profit
Company Profile:
Bellberry Limited is an Australian award-winning independent, not-for-profit organisation offering Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) services.
Driven by two key objectives, to protect the welfare of research participants and improve the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of research, Bellberry provides high-quality, time-efficient, and internationally accredited scientific and ethical review of research projects.
Established in 2004, Bellberry is Australia’s single largest reviewer of clinical research, providing specialist HREC oversight to over 40% of CTN registered clinical trials across all phases of clinical and device trials as well as for social and behavioural studies.
In 2024, Bellberry was honoured as the national winner of the Telstra Best of Business award for Championing Health highlighting its support of advancing research.
Participant wellbeing is at the centre of all that Bellberry does. Unique within the research sector, Bellberry reinvests the surplus funds generated by the activities of its HRECs back into the Australian medical research community through philanthropy and education.
It is the only organisation in Australia to gain the “gold seal” of accreditation from the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs (AAHRPP) for excellence and ethically sound processes in running HRECs.
