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RESPONSIBLE CONDUCT IN RESEARCH: RESEARCH ETHICS, RIGOR, REPRODUCIBILITY AND TRANSPARENCY

PATH 755
Course Description

Meets the NIH Institutional Training Grant requirements covering all ten of targeted areas in biomedical research. Subject matter incorporates the following topics for instruction: 1) Conflict of interest - personal, professional, and financial; 2) Policies regarding human subjects, and rigor and reproducibility in clinical research; 3) Policies regarding live vertebrate animal subjects, rigor and reproducibility and transparency in pre-clinical research, and safe laboratory practices; 4) Mentor and mentee responsibilities and relationships; 5) Collaborative research including collaborations with industry; 6) Peer review; 7) Data acquisition and laboratory tools (management, sharing and ownership); 8) Research misconduct and policies for handling misconduct; 9) Responsible authorship and publication; 10) The scientist as a responsible member of society, contemporary ethical issues in biomedical research, and the environmental and societal impacts of scientific research.

Prerequisties

Graduate/professional standing

Satisfies

This course does not satisfy any prerequisites.

Credits

2

Offered

Not Applicable

Grade Point Average
3.83

-2.27% from Historical

Completion Rate
95.83%

-2.49% from Historical

A Rate
95.83%

-0.74% from Historical

Class Size
24

24.14% from Historical

Instructors (2025 Fall)

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