ORI CREATES PROGRAM FOR DEVELOPING RCR RESOURCES Release Date: June 5, 2002 NOTICE: NOT-OD-02-053 National Institutes of Health The Office of Research Integrity (ORI) is seeking applications by June 28, 2002 for its newly established Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) Resource Development Program to facilitate the creation of instructional materials for general use in institutional RCR education programs. The program announcement is available on the ORI home page. The program supports the development of instructional materials that address one or more of the following topics: Data acquisition, management, sharing, and ownership; mentor/trainee responsibilities; publication practices and responsible authorship; peer review; collaborative science; human research subjects; animal research subjects; conflict of interest and commitment, and research misconduct. Proposals must use the form provided on the ORI website and be submitted via email as an attachment to facilitate the review process. ORI intends to fund between 8 and 10 projects (total cost $25,000 each) this fiscal year. Awards will be announced in early August 2002. Award decisions will be based on relevance to PHS research and the aforementioned RCR instruction areas, innovative quality, and potential for use by other institutions. In subsequent years, the submission deadline will be February 1 with reviews conducted in March and awards made in May. The RCR resource program implements recommendations made in two reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). In 1992, the NAS report on Responsible Science: Ensuring the Integrity of the Research Process recommended that "scientists and research institutions should integrate into their curricula educational programs that foster faculty and student awareness of concerns related to the integrity of the research process." In 1989, the Institute of Medicine report, The Responsible Conduct of Research in the Health Sciences, recommended that "universities should provide formal instruction in good research practices. This instruction should not be limited to formal courses, but it should be incorporated into various places in the undergraduate and graduate curricula for all science students."
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