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RESEARCH ETHICS PROGRAM

This notice is being sent to increase awareness of resources available to support integrity in research at UCSD. The Research Ethics Program was founded in 1997 to provide a variety of teaching, research, and service activities relevant to the responsible conduct of research. The importance of these issues has only increased in recent years with increases in: the requirements for training in responsible conduct of research; the public scrutiny of academic conflicts of interest, the conduct of research, and even the choices about what will be studied; and concerns about research and development in a wide range of areas, such as human embryonic stem cells, robotics, genetically modified crops, and nanotechnology. These and many other topics are the focus of Research Ethics Program activities.

For more information about these activities, please check the Research Ethics Program Web site at:

http://ethics.ucsd.edu

COURSES
To support faculty who hold training grants, fellowship awards, and career development awards from the National Institutes of Health and other funding agencies, several different courses are given each year to meet requirements for training in the responsible conduct of research:

http://ethics.ucsd.edu/courses

Postdocs, students, faculty, or others interested in taking these courses should register at:

http://ethics.ucsd.edu/courses/register.htm

SEMINAR SERIES
Three monthly seminar series are open to all interested individuals. The Biomedical Ethics Seminar Series is a forum for ethics discussions involving medicine, clinical research, basic research, and academia. Tough Cases is a lunch-time discussion meeting, primarily for medical, pharmacy, and other graduate students in the School of Medicine to address specific problems in the practice of medicine and research. The Research Ethics Journal Club meets to discuss readings relevant to the discipline of research ethics. More information about these seminar series can be found at:

http://ethics.ucsd.edu/seminars/seminars.html

SUPPORT SERVICES
The Research Ethics Program is able to provide assistance with a wide range of ethics support services to departments, research groups, and individual faculty. Please feel free to contact the Research Ethics Program if you are interested in incorporating ethics into existing or planned courses, preparing a grant application that would be strengthened with a component of ethics support, delivering ad hoc seminars on topics in applied ethics, or promoting discussion of specific ethics topics.

For more information about the Research Ethics Program, if you have any questions, or if you would like to be added to the Research Ethics Program e-mail list, please call 858-822-2647 or send an e-mail message to ethics@ucsd.edu.

Richard Attiyeh Vice Chancellor for Research Dean for Graduate Studies Michael Kalichman Director, Research Ethics Program