Abstract
The ABRF Committee on Core Rigor and Reproducibility (CCoRRe) solicited feedback from ABRF members via a survey designedto gain insight into how NIH initiatives on advancing scientific rigor and reproducibility may influence core leaders in providing services and developing new technology. The survey returned valuable feedback regarding challenges, opportunities, and new practices/resources that can help ensure the conduct of rigorous research. The survey results showed that awareness of the NIH guidelines is variable. However, a consistent picture also emerged from the survey results,highlighting the factors that support or impede the conduct of rigorous research, and the types of supportive services that research cores can offer to their users.
This talk will highlight an institutional approach to developing guidelines and best practices for research cores and shared resources to support overall scientific rigor, reproducibility and transparency (RR&T) at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC). The collaborative process used to draft newguidelines for RR&T will be described, and direct connections between VUMC's work-in-progress and the best practices identified by respondents to the CCoRRe survey will be emphasized. Attendees will see how the CCoRRe survey data might inspire their own research cores and institutions to develop similar resources and spark new initiatives.