How to Facilitate Successful Research Collaborations
Adopting best practices and avoiding common collaboration pitfalls

Want your collaborations with other researchers to provide maximum value to your research program? Learn how from Stewart Lyman, Ph.D., who headed one of the largest and most productive Extramural Research programs in the industry at Immunex Corporation. His presentation distills the expertise his group developed while handling approximately 2500 collaborations during a four year period. If you want to maximize the likelihood of your scientific collaborations being successful, why not take advantage of his experience?

Presentation Topics Include:
• Philosophical and ethical underpinnings of a successful collaboration
• Benefits (and downsides) of research collaborations
• How to choose your collaborator
• The critical need to establish formal collaboration guidelines
• Publication, presentation, and authorship issues
• Interacting productively with collaborators
• How to handle collaborators who misuse your reagents
• Reagent packaging and shipping

Questions Answered Include:
• Are you obligated to say "yes" to all collaboration requests?
• What happens if the experiments don't get done as planned?
• How should you handle the authorship issue for resulting publications?
• Who has rights to any reagents that are derived from the collaboration?
• Who, if anyone, needs to be notified about your collaboration?
• What happens if your reagents are given to another lab without your permission?
• Is it a good idea to specify restrictions on the use of your reagent(s)?
• Should you set up overlapping collaborations with different researchers?
• How should you deal with presentation of data derived using your materials but without your knowledge?
• When should you get your technology transfer group involved?

Who should attend:
This presentation gives practical, real-world guidance on setting up productive research collaborations to your scientific staff, including principle investigators, post-doctoral fellows, graduate students, and university members that interact with your researchers.

Call (206) 931-6403 and arrange a presentation today!