For years, Theradex® has been providing quality assurance programs to a small number of elite institutions engaged in cutting edge clinical research. The recent activity in the gene therapy and aero-space medicine areas has emphasized how necessary such activities are. Theradex® was instrumental in helping institutions ensure that their internal control procedures were more than adequate to avoid the criticism to which some institutions became vulnerable. This independent outside oversight is increasingly in demand in the areas of gene therapy, pediatric medicine, aerospace decompression and “spacewalk” physiology. Theradex® now offers these independent auditing services as one of its general clinical research services.