"The government recognized that this was a bottleneck and created IRAS (Integrated Research Approval System), a single point of entry for permissions and approvals for health research from all the relevant review bodies, including the Gene Therapy Advisory Committee (GTAC), the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), and the NRES (National Research Ethics Service) and NHS Research Ethics Committees."
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