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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

Rigor & Reproducibility

To learn more about OGR or to submit a consultation request, email ogr@unc.edu.

Sample drop off/pick up is available at the OGR office located at 5105 Marsico Hall.

OGR’s commitment to Rigor & Reproducibility

  1. We provide consultations at any stage and provide research design support during planning.
  2. We help to design your experiment with sufficient controls (rigor) and replicates (reproducibility).
  3. We assure that all the collaborator lab reagents (antibodies, cell lines, mice) are fully validated.
  4. We have clear and detailed protocols (SOPs) in place for all OGR activities. We assure that the protocol is strictly followed or that any deviation is well documented in the collaborator labs and in our offices.
  5. We assure that the staff or students performing the experiments in the collaborator labs are well trained and understand each step and the importance of performing them precisely.
  6. We confirm that the collaborator labs use only well-maintained instrumentation, preferably maintained and operated in a core facility with expert staff.
  7. We document all steps, reagents, equipment and data analysis methods used in the experiment. We assure that both the documentation and the data are properly stored in a safe data management repository.
  8. We ask investigators to acknowledge the Cancer Center Support Grant (P30 CA016086), other grants that support the core, the core (by name), and core staff in publications. See acknowledgements