Month: August 2026

Join us for timely conversations on research security, research integrity, helpful tools, and more. Mark your calendars and register for the sessions that interest you!

Attendance will count towards 1 credit hour of Advanced RCR training, but you must register. Download the Word document to view the latest workshops and register.

New faculty are invited to participate in the New Faculty Orientation – Research Session, an opportunity to learn more about Clemson University’s research environment and the resources available to support your scholarly work.

As you begin your journey at Clemson, this session will introduce you to the research support, opportunities and connections that can help you build and advance your research program. Whether you are preparing to pursue funding, need information on navigating complex regulatory and compliance matters, or are simply learning how to navigate Clemson’s research enterprise, this orientation is a valuable starting point.

We encourage all new faculty interested in research and scholarship at Clemson to attend, connect with colleagues and learn more about the resources available to support their success.

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New Faculty Orientation – Research Session

The US government recently released a new U.S. Government Policy for Stopping High-Risk Life Sciences Research. The main highlights of this policy include:

1. Bars federal support for what it calls “dangerous” gain-of-function, or DGOF, research. It defines two categories of research posing the highest risk: DGOF research and international research of concern. 
2. DGOF research is defined as work that makes a biological agent more dangerous across seven outcomes, including enhancing an agent’s harm, undermining vaccines or immunity, conferring resistance to therapeutics, increasing transmissibility, altering host range and reconstituting an eradicated or extinct agent. The definition explicitly includes creating “mirror organisms.”
3. Research with “potential” DGOF characteristics can still receive federal funding, but only after an independent third-party review body clears it. The international research of concern category blocks funding for work conducted in unspecified “countries of concern” or with “entities of concern.”
4. Principal investigators must now attest in writing whether their proposed work qualifies as DGOF, and institutions must establish an institutional review entity and name an internal contact for such research. Violations or false attestations can trigger revoked funding and up to five years of ineligibility for federal life sciences funds.