In this issue we focus on Research ethics. This is an important area for several reasons. Research has become an integral part of most disciplines in the current world, but probably none more important or immediately touching human lives as research in medicine. In fact, Ana Iltis makes a sweeping statement as her opening line in the book, Research Ethics, “Medicine in the twenty first century will be defined by biomedical research” It is critical then that research ethics keep pace with the advances in biomedical technology and the consequent research that comes in its wake…