ETHICS AND THE RESPONSIBLE CONDUCT OF RESEARCH

KINES 862

Explore the ethical dilemmas faced by researchers across biomedical and nonbiomedical research and consider how to best support scientific integrity and public trust. Fulfill NIH training requirements for the responsible conduct of research. Identify the regulatory guidelines and ethical frameworks and principles guiding research ethics and responsible research conduct. Develop the skills to make ethically informed decisions in relation to their research and training.

BME 703

Develop an understanding of the elements involved in being a responsible member of the Biomedical Engineering research community. Topics include mentor/mentee relationships, identifying research problems, research integrity, ethics, regulations, and improving the scientific climate.

PATH 755

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.

PHARMACY 800

Familiarizes graduate students with basic ethical issues associated with biomedical science research, taught via a case study approach. Content structured to meet NIH and NSF requirements for Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) training. Students declared in the Pharmacology and Toxicology undergraduate program may enroll via consent of instructor.

OBS&GYN 956

Meets the NIH Institutional Training Grant requirements of repeat/further instruction in the nine recommended areas (1) conflict of interest - personal, professional, and financial; (2) policies regarding human subjects, live vertebrate animal subjects in research, and safe laboratory practices; (3) mentor/mentee responsibilities and relationships; (4) collaborative research including collaborations with industry; (5) peer review; (6) data acquisition and laboratory tools, and management, sharing and ownership; (7) research misconduct and policies for handling misconduct; (8) responsible authorship and publication; (9) the scientist as a responsible member of society, contemporary ethical issues in biomedical research, and the environmental and societal impacts of scientific research. Provides advanced consideration of these topics and illustrates how to implement these responsible conduct and ethical considerations into actual grant- and career-related documents.