National Academies
Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy

Committee on Assuring
the Integrity of Research Data
1^st Committee Meeting

April 16-17, 2007

The National Academies
Keck Building, 500 5^th Street, NW
Washington, DC

Room 100 (open session) and Room 101 (executive session)

Monday, April 16

Open Session (Room 100)

11:00 Physical Sciences Case Study
Gerald North, Distinguished Professor of Meteorology and Oceanography and
Harold J. Haynes Endowed Chair in Geosciences, Texas A&M University
and Chair, National Academies committee that developed the report Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years [Powerpoint]

Working Lunch

12:00 Satellite Data Case Study
John Christy, Professor of Atmospheric Science, and Director
Earth System Science Center University of Alabama, Huntsville [Powerpoint]

1:00 Life Sciences Case Studies

Thomas Cech, President of Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Chair, National Academies committee that developed report Sharing Publication-Related Data and Materials: Responsibilities of Authorship in the Life Sciences [Powerpoint]

2:00 Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Industry Case Study
Eve E. Slater, Director on Board of Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Theravance, Inc, and others, Former Senior Vice President , Merck and Former Assistant Secretary for Health, Health and Human Services [Powerpoint]

3:00 Break

3:15 Journals Perspective on Charge Questions
Mike Rossner, Executive Editor, The Journal of Cell Biology, and Executive Director, The Rockefeller University Press. [Powerpoint]
Randy Schekman, Editor-in-Chief, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Monica Bradford, Executive Editor, Science [Powerpoint]
Linda J. Miller, U.S. Executive Editor, Nature [Powerpoint]

5:15 Public Comment

5:30 Adjourn Public Session

Open Session (Room 101)

9:30 Office of Science and Technology Policy
Sharon Hays, Associate Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

10:30 Journal Perspective (continued)
Robert A. Moffitt, Editor, American Economic Review [Powerpoint]

11:00 Break

Open Session (Room 100)

11:30 Academic Institutions’ Perspective on Charge Questions
Chuck Phelps, Provost, University of Rochester on behalf of the Association of American Universities [Powerpoint]
David Shulenburger, Vice President Academic Affairs, National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges [Powerpoint]
Todd G. Guttman, Associate Vice President for Research Compliance, The Ohio State University on Council on Government Relations Report “Access to and Retention of Research Data: Rights and Responsibilities” [Powerpoint]

12:45 Break

Working Lunch (Room 100)

1:00 Federal Agency Perspective on Charge Questions
Joan Schwartz, Assistant Director, Office of Intramural Research, National Institute of Health [Powerpoint]
Chris Pascal, Director, Office of Research Integrity, Department of Health and Human Services [Powerpoint]
Patricia Dehmer, Director, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Department of Energy
Deborah Crawford, Acting Deputy Director for the Directorate of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), National Science Foundation

3:30 Interagency Working Group on Digital Data (IWGDD) Activities
Cita Furlani, Director, Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology and Co-Chair, IWGDD [Powerpoint]

4:00 Public Comment

4:15 Public Session Ends