The Audit and Monitoring Department ensures compliance with research protocols, ethical guidelines, and regulatory requirements at JCRC. It conducts routine and ad hoc audits of ongoing research projects to identify deviations, inefficiencies, or potential risks. By providing timely feedback and recommending corrective actions, this department helps maintain high standards of scientific rigor and transparency.

It also monitors adherence to funding requirements, ensuring that projects align with donor expectations and institutional policies. Ultimately, this department enhances research quality by strengthening accountability, improving protocol compliance, and mitigating risks that could compromise study integrity.

The Quality Control/Quality Assurance (QC/QA) Department is responsible for maintaining and enhancing the quality of research processes and outputs at JCRC. It develops standard operating procedures (SOPs) and conducts internal reviews to ensure research activities meet international quality standards.

By performing periodic checks and implementing corrective actions, the department ensures consistency, accuracy, and reproducibility of study results. It also fosters a culture of continuous quality improvement by training researchers and staff on quality management principles. This department significantly contributes to research excellence by minimizing errors, enhancing credibility, and ensuring that JCRC’s research findings are globally competitive.

The Regulatory Department at JCRC ensures that all research activities comply with national and international legal and ethical standards. It oversees the submission and approval of research protocols to relevant regulatory bodies, ensuring studies meet established guidelines before initiation.

This department also facilitates interactions with regulatory agencies, ensuring timely approvals while maintaining strict adherence to compliance requirements. By keeping up with evolving regulations and providing guidance to researchers, it helps mitigate legal and ethical risks in research. Through its work, the Regulatory Department enhances research quality by ensuring studies are legally sound, ethically conducted, and scientifically credible.

The Research Ethics Committee (REC) at JCRC is responsible for protecting the rights, dignity, and welfare of research participants. It reviews study protocols to ensure they comply with ethical principles, including informed consent, confidentiality, and risk minimization.

The committee provides independent oversight, ensuring that research projects prioritize participant safety while achieving scientific objectives. By requiring adherence to ethical standards, REC prevents unethical research practices that could compromise data integrity and participant well-being. Through rigorous ethical review and continuous oversight, the REC enhances research quality by fostering responsible, transparent, and ethically sound research.

The Grants Administration Department plays a crucial role in securing and managing research funding at JCRC. It is responsible for identifying grant opportunities, developing proposals, and ensuring compliance with funding requirements. This department also oversees the financial management of research grants, ensuring transparency and accountability in fund utilization.

By supporting budget planning, reporting, and compliance monitoring, it helps sustain research activities and promotes efficient resource use. Through these efforts, the Grants Administration Department contributes to research quality by ensuring financial sustainability, reducing administrative burdens on researchers, and enabling the successful execution of high-impact studies.