Responsible Conduct of Research
BIOMEDICAL POSTDOCTORAL PROGRAMS (BPP)
RESPONSIBLE CONDUCT OF RESEARCH (RCR)
BPP requires all of its Biomedical Postdoctoral Fellows to be trained in Responsible Conduct of Research. Our program is composed of a number of components including mandatory and elective options, which the trainee selects to meet the NIH Guidelines.
The BPP RCR Program includes the following:
Required completion of the CITI RCR training modules (covers content and provides a framework for discussions) within the first year of postdoc training and eight contact hours of RCR training within each career stage. Seminar series with discussions are led by faculty mentors. A minimum of twelve 60 minute sessions (see 2023 schedule below) will be offered per year covering the required topic areas.
Although the NIH Guidelines state that there “are no specific curricular requirements”, our on-line RCR training and seminar sessions will include these topic areas:
- conflict of interest – personal, professional, and financial – and conflict of commitment, in allocating time, effort, or other research resources
- policies regarding human subjects, live vertebrate animal subjects in research, and safe laboratory practices
- mentor/mentee responsibilities and relationships
- safe research environments (e.g., those that promote inclusion and are free of sexual, racial, ethnic, disability and other forms of discriminatory harassment)
- collaborative research, including collaborations with industry and investigators and institutions in other countries
- peer review, including the responsibility for maintaining confidentiality and security in peer review
- data acquisition and analysis; laboratory tools (e.g., tools for analyzing data and creating or working with digital images); recordkeeping practices, including methods such as electronic laboratory notebooks
- secure and ethical data use; data confidentiality, management, sharing, and ownership
- research misconduct and policies for handling misconduct
- responsible authorship and publication
- the scientist as a responsible member of society, contemporary ethical issues in biomedical research, and the environmental and societal impacts of scientific research
Additional topic areas addressed:
- scientific rigor and reproducibility
- implicit bias
- civility issues in research environments, including but not limited to, harassment, bullying, and inappropriate behavior
- social and environmental impacts of research
Annually, we hosts the Responsible Conduct of Research Symposium in April. The symposium serves as an introduction to all RCR subject topics, including Scientific Rigor and Reproducibility, adopted by the recent National Institution of Health (NIH) recommendations (FY 2022 Updated Guidance: Requirement for Instructions in the Responsible Conduct of Research NOT-OD-22-055). This year's RCR Symposium took place on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM in CRB, Austrian Auditorium.
Boilerplates
BPP Training Boilerplate for Individual NIH Fellowships
RCR Postdocs Training Boilerplate for Individual NIH Fellowships (2024)
RCR Postdocs Training Boilerplate for Individual NIH Fellowships (2023)
BPP and Diversity Boilerplate for Individual NIH Fellowships
Annual Programs
BPP Events List (FY 2023-2024)
BPP Events List (FY 2022-2023)
Additional References:
Office of the Vice Provost for Research | NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy (2023)
Biomedical Graduate Studies RCR & SRR
Principles of Responsible Conduct
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
NIH Guidelines
NIH Annual Review of Ethics (Case Studies)
Office of Research Integrity
ORI Introduction to the Responsible Conduct of Research
*Last updated on 07/26/2024
2024 RCR Sessions Schedule
Date |
Leader/ Co-Leaders |
Topic |
Location |
Time |
Registration Required |
|
02/14/2024 |
Ramon R. Diaz-Arrastia, MD, PhD |
Mentor/mentee responsibilities and relationships |
BRB 253 |
1:00 PM— 2:00 PM |
Registration Closed |
|
03/06/2024 |
Ivan P. Maillard, MD, PhD & Philip Gehrman, Ph.D., CBSM, FAASM |
Responsible authorship and publication |
Virtual |
2:00 PM—3:00 PM |
Registration Closed |
|
04/01/2024 |
Andrew Paskevich |
Research misconduct |
RCH B102AB |
11:00 AM—12:00 PM |
Registration Closed |
| 04/23/2024 | Kurt A. Engleka, Ph.D., Waged Jafer, Ph.D., Ronen Marmorstein, Ph.D., Emma A. Meagher, M.D., Andrew Paskevich |
BPP 3rd Annual Responsible Conduct of Research Symposium**Special Event** |
CRB Auditorium | 11:00 AM—12:00 PM | Registration Closed |
|
05/17/2024 |
Sandhitsu Das, Ph.D. & Melike Lakadamyali, Ph.D. |
Data management |
Stemmler 416-417 |
1:00 PM— 2:00 PM |
Registration Closed |
|
06/03/2024 |
James C. Gee, Ph.D. & Andrew Maidment, Ph.D. FAAPM FSBI |
Conflict of interest in research |
BRB 251 |
10:00 AM—11:00 AM |
Registration Closed |
| 07/16/2024 | Christopher Hunter, B.Sc, Ph.D. & Nancy Speck, Ph.D. | Collaborative research | BRB 251 | 1:00 PM —2:00 PM | Registration Closed |
| 08/29/2024 | Waged Jafer, Ph.D. | Safe research environments | BRB 1412 | 11:45 AM—1:00 PM | Registration Open |
Faculty interested in being a part of our faculty rotation schedule, please sign up or contact dcrawley@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.
BPP RCR 2023 Schedule
|
Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Location |
Time |
|
01/19/2023 |
Elizabeth Bassett, Ph.D. & Sarah Capasso, Ph.D. |
Responsible use of biohazardous material in research |
BRB 1412 |
11:00 AM— 12:00 PM |
|
02/10/2023 |
Ramon R. Diaz-Arrastia, MD, Ph.D. & Jessica Morgan, Ph.D. |
Policies regarding human subjects in research and safe laboratory practices |
BRB 253 |
1:30 PM—2:30 PM |
|
03/02/2023 |
Alexander Huang, MD |
Collaborative science |
Virtual |
10:30 AM— 11:30 AM |
|
04/03/2023 |
Jonathan Raper, Ph.D. |
Civility issues in research environments, including but not limited to, harassment, bullying, and inappropriate behavior |
BRB 1412 |
12:00 PM— 1:00 PM |
|
04/25/2023 |
Stephen Dinardo, Ph.D., Kurt Engleka, Ph.D., Kellie Ann Jurado, Ph.D., Andrew Paskevich, Ph.D., Jennifer Pinto-Martin, Ph.D., MP |
Annual RCR Symposium (Responsible Authorship & Publication, Scientific Rigor & Reproducibility (SRR), Mentor/ Mentee Relationships, Research Misconduct and Policies Handling It, Safe Research Environment: Mitigating Biases & Microaggression) |
BRB, Gaulton Auditorium |
11:00 AM— 2:00 PM |
|
05/11/2023 |
Daria V. Babushok, MD, PhD & |
Peer review and privileged information |
Virtual |
11:00 AM— 12:00 PM |
|
06/26/2023 |
Andrew Paskevich |
Research Misconduct |
BRB 251 |
1:00 PM— 2:00 PM |
|
08/07/2023 |
James Gee, Ph.D. & Andrew Maidment, Ph.D., FAAPM |
Data acquisition and analysis; laboratory tools; and recordkeeping practice |
Virtual |
12:00 PM— 1:00 PM |
|
12/18/2023 |
Diego Contreras, MD, PhD |
Policies regarding animal research subject |
BRB 253 |
11:00 AM— 12:00 PM |
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BPP RCR 2022 Schedule
|
Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Location |
Time |
|
02/01/2022 |
Drs. Corey McMillan and Allan Pack Sr. |
Scientific rigor and reproducibility (SRR) |
Virtual via Zoom |
04:30 PM— |
|
02/15/2022 |
Dr. Geoffrey Karl Aguirre |
Pre-registration of experiments as a tool for scientific rigor |
Virtual via Zoom |
04:30 PM— |
|
03/03/2022 |
Drs. James Gee and Andrew Maidment |
Civility issues in research environments |
Virtual via Zoom |
12:30 PM— |
|
03/30/2022 |
Drs. Steven Albelda and Warren Pear |
Research Misconduct |
Virtual via Zoom |
11:00 AM—12:00 PM |
|
07/13/2022 |
Dr. Allan I Pack |
Peer Review |
Virtual via Zoom |
01:00 PM— 2:00 PM |
|
08/10/2022 |
Dr. Mortimer Poncz |
Data Management |
Virtual via Zoom |
01:00 PM— 02:00 PM |
|
10/11/2022 |
Andrew Paskevich |
Research Misconduct |
RCH B102AB |
12:00 PM— |
|
11/30/2022 |
Dr. Trevor Penning |
Data Management |
BRB 1412 |
01:00 PM— 02:00 PM |
|
12/08/2022 |
Hanan Ahmed |
Addressing Implicit Bias in Research Setting |
BRB 252 |
12:30 PM— 02:00 PM |
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BPP RCR 2021 Schedule
|
01/27/2021 |
Drs. Diego Contreras & David Irwin |
|
Virtual via Zoom |
12:00 PM—1:00 PM |
|
2/22/2021 |
Drs. Erika Holzbaur and David Margolis |
Conflict of Interest |
Virtual via Zoom |
11:00 AM— |
|
2/23/2021 |
Drs. Saar Gill and Yana Kamberov |
Data |
Virtual via Zoom |
4:30 PM— |
|
03/03/2021 |
Drs. Oliver A. Garden & Ivan P. Maillard |
Policies regarding live vertebrae animals in research and safe laboratory practices |
Virtual via Zoom |
11:00 AM— |
|
03/19/2021 |
Drs. James Gee & Allan Pack |
Collaborations and team science |
Virtual via Zoom |
10:00 AM— |
|
04/12/2021 |
Drs. Diaz-Arrastia and Koumenis |
Scientific rigor and reproducibility |
Virtual via Zoom |
2:00 PM— |
|
05/05/2021 |
Drs. Sanjeev Chawla and Kavindra Nath |
Authorship and publication |
Virtual via Zoom |
12:00 PM—1:00 PM |
|
06/08/2021 |
Drs. Ronen Marmorstein and Allan Pack |
Mentor/mentee responsibilities and relationships |
Virtual via Zoom |
3:00 PM—4:00 PM |
|
06/14/2021 |
Drs. Gee and Maidment |
Civility issues in research |
Virtual via Zoom |
12:00 PM—1:00 PM |
|
09/08/2021 |
Drs. Eileen Lake and Karen Lasater |
Peer Review for Publication: Ethical Considerations |
Virtual via Zoom |
3:00 PM—4:00 PM |
|
10/04/2021 |
Drs. Malay Haldar and Jason Moore |
Authorship and publication |
Virtual via Zoom |
11:00 AM—12:00 PM |
|
11/04/2021 |
Drs. George Demiris and Matthew McHugh |
Collaborations and team science |
Virtual via Zoom |
12:00 PM—1:00 PM |
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