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Summer Institute: Responsible Conduct of Research: Course Topics: Resources

Animal Care and Use in Research (IACUC)

GW Policy: 

National Research Council of the National Academies. (2011). Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services & National Institutes of Health. (2015). Public Health Service Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals

Dyson, M., Jirkof, P., Lofgren, J., Nunamaker, E., & Pang, D. (2023). Anesthesia and analgesia in laboratory animals (Third edition.). Academic Press.

Clark, J.M., Clifford, P., Jarrett, W., & Pekow, C. (2019). Communicating about animal research with the publicILAR Journal, 1-9. doi: 10.1093/ilar/ilz007

Degrazia, D. (1999). The ethics of animal research: What are the prospect for agreement? Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 8(1), 23-34. doi:10.1017/S0963180199801054

Fox, J.G. & Bennett, B.T. (2015). Laboratory animal medicine: Historical perspectives. London, England: Academic Press.

Percie du Sert, et al. (2020). The ARRIVE Guidelines 2.0: Updated guidelines for reporting animal research. PLOS Biology, 18(7), e3000410. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000410

Moss, M. (2015). US research lab lets livestock suffer in quest for profit.  New York Times.

Protection Priority. (2015, September). Nature, 525, 290. doi: 10.1038/525290a

Smith, A.J., et al. The PREPARE guidelines checklist: Planning Research and Experimental Procedures on Animals: Recommendations for Excellence  (see PDF linked below)

Intellectual Property and Commercialization

Wright, B., Drivas, K., Lei, Z., Merrill, S. (2014). Technology transfer: Industry-funded academic inventions boost innovation. Nature, 507, 297-299(2014). doi: 10.1038/507297a

Peer Review

Data Acquisition, Management, Sharing, and Ownership

Conflicts of Interest in Research

Reproducibility and Replicability in Science

The Scientist as a Responsible Member of Society