Abstract
Ethical standards on using surplus human materials in medical research at the university hospital are discussed through a case deliberated in the ethics committee, and three ethical conditions and five procedures for the case are proposed from the practical view. In accordance with the Helsinki Declaration (2000), even if the confidentiality of system and the transparency of medical research are secured by the ethics committee, I judge that the use of surplus human materials without informed consent in medical research is not ethically valid. I believe that ethical standards on using surplus human materials involved the existing are as follows: 1) to have voluntary comprehensive consent of human subjects; 2) to clear the procedure that human materials are anonymous, non-connected data, and to monitor it; 3) to secure the transparency of medical research by the ethics committee. These are common to the conditions of human material bank.
