| No ethics, no grant |
Author: Eva Pastor
Date: 09-17-09 13:45
Source: Nature (Volume 461 Number 7262)
URL: http://nature.com
Date published: September 17th 2009
No ethics, no grant
Ethics training is a new must for all National Science Foundation grant recipients.
After this year, institutions that receive funds from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) must provide training and oversight in research ethics for their undergraduate and graduate students and postdocs. NSF grant applications must show that young scientists funded by the grants will receive formal training in what the NSF calls "responsible conduct of research (RCR)".
The NSF defines RCR as issues related to publication and authorship, the use of human subjects in research, conflicts of interest and intellectual-property rights. The US National Academies and the National Postdoctoral Association offer RCR training guidelines.
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