About the Author
Francis L. Macrina, Ph.D. is the Edward Myers Professor and Director of the John F. Philips Institute of Oral and Craniofacial Molecular Biology at Virginia Commonwealth University. He chaired the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at VCU during 1983-1996 and has also served as interim director of VCU's Massey Cancer Center and acting Vice President for Research. He directs a research program in bacterial pathogenesis that has been supported continuously by the NIH for 29 years. His NIH funding record includes prestigious Research Career Development and MERIT awards. He has served on editorial boards of peer-reviewed journals, and was editor of the journal Plasmid. He has served multiple terms on NIH study sections, and chaired the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. He presently is a member of that NIH Institute’s National Advisory Council. Dr. Macrina is a member of the ethics committees of the American Society for Microbiology and the American Association for Dental Research. He is a member of the VCU Institutional Review Board (IRB) for human subjects research, and has served as the chair of a Data Safety Monitoring Board for an NIH-sponsored multi-center clinical research trial. Dr. Macrina has been teaching scientific integrity to graduate and postgraduate trainees at VCU for 18 years. He frequently presents scientific integrity workshops at other institutions and has assisted in the development of graduate and undergraduate courses on this topic.
Relevant Publications
Macrina FL (2005): Scientific Integrity: Text and Cases in Responsible Conduct of Research. Third Edition. American Society for Microbiology Press, Washington, DC, 402 pp.
Macrina, FL. Funk, CL, and Barrett, K. (2004): Effectiveness of Responsible Conduct of Research Instruction: Initial Findings. Journal of Research Administration 6: 6-12
Mann MD, Kalichman MW, and
Macrina FL (2004): Education in the responsible conduct of research. The
Physiologist.
http://www.the-aps.org/publications/tphys/2004html/AugTPhys/educresp.htm
Kalichman MW, Macrina FL, Kahn JP (2001): Resources for instruction in responsible conduct of research. In: (Steneck NH, Scheetz, MD, eds.) Investigating Research Integrity: Proceedings of the First ORI Research Conference on Research Integrity. [available online at: http://ori.hhs.gov/documents/proceedings_rri.pdf (This link opens a PDF file; use the author’s names in a search command to find this citation)
Macrina FL (2000): Scientific Integrity: An Introductory Text with Cases. Second Edition. American Society for Microbiology Press, Washington, DC, 336 pp.
Kalichman, M and Macrina, FL (1998): Assigning Credit for Productivity: How, By Whom, For What, When. In:Management Of Biomedical Research Laboratories Proceedings of A National Conference. David, T (Editor). Office of Research Integrity web site. Monograph published by University of Arizona. Copies of this monograph may be obtained by sending at request to the US DHHS Office of Research Integrity: mailto:askORI@osophs.dhhs.gov
Macrina FL (1995): Scientific Integrity: An Introductory Text with Cases. Second Edition. American Society for Microbiology Press, Washington, DC, 283 pp.
Macrina FL and Munro CL (1995): The case study approach in teaching scientific integrity. Journal of Professional Nursing 11: 40-44.
Macrina FL, Botstein D, Burd G, Cherbas P, Goeddel D, Gottesman S, Gunsalus CK, Iglewski B, Sagik B, Whitbeck C, Woolf P, and Yamamoto K (1995): Dynamic issues in scientific integrity: Collaborative research. American Academy of Microbiology -- American Society for Microbiology, Washington, DC, 16 pp. [http://www.asm.org/Academy/index.asp?bid=25776]
Macrina FL and Munro CL (1993): Graduate Teaching in the Principles of Scientific Integrity. Academic Medicine 68: 879-886.
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