Rigor and Reproducibility

In 2015, the NIH developed guidelines around the need for clear standards and emphasis to enhance rigor and transparency in the studies it supported to drive reproducible results.  This emphasis is twofold:

1) To establish and evaluate the rigor and reproducibility of past research which forms the bedrock for future research justifications and

2) to address how proposed research will achieve unbiased and robust results.

Each core at UNC is encouraged to develop Rigor and Reproducibility guidelines for their labs and to publicize these guidelines on their lab websites and make them available to core customers upon request.

Resources for Fulfilling NIH Rigor and Reproducibility Requirements in Grant Writing

Guidelines for Rigor and Reproducibility from the NIH

Grant Application Instructions from the NIH

Guidelines for Reproducibility of Biophysics Research from the Biophysical Society

Standards for Reporting Enzymology Data (STRENDA) Guidelines from the Beilstein Institut

Guide to Rigor and Reproducibility for Flow Cytometry from the UNC Flow Cytometry Core