Time: Fridays, 1:00 - 3:30 PM

Location: Roswell Park Cancer Institute; Research Studies Center, Rm 404

Course objectives: This is a survey course, intended to provide an appreciation for and basic applicable knowledge of the responsibilities, roles, policies and laws involved in managing a scientific research laboratory in both the academic and private sector.

By the end of this course the student will:

• Obtain a working knowledge of the tasks and roles handled by a scientific laboratory manager
• Gain knowledge of the laws and policies governing human resources
• Obtain applicable legal knowledge of health and safety policies governing laboratory research
• Gain experience generating grant budgets
• Observe laboratory operations at a private scientific research facility

Planned field trips:

On specified dates in the schedule, field trips will be planned to tour the facilities of local scientific research laboratories. These tours will include meeting with the facility's director of scientific research for a question/answer period.

Course evaluation:

Class participants will be evaluated upon attendance and successful completion of in-class assignments.  Please refer to the website schedule and click on "Assignments" to the left of the scheduled class to obtain a copy of the assignment a week in advance of the class.

Course materials/text:

Suggested reading material will be made available by lecturers in class or online.  Please check the schedule and click on "Reading Materials" for the specified class.

Course Schedule:

Date	Topic	Lecturer	Assignment	Reading Material
September 4th	Bringing Emotional Intelligence to the Work Place	Muriel Anderson	Due September 4th
September 11th	Roles of the Scientific Lab Manager	Susan Bechtel and Bruce Specht
September 18th	Principles of Managing Individuals	Joe Kuchera
September 25th	Human Resources	Michelle Moore
October 2nd	Technology Transfer Agreements	Richard Matner
October 9th	Employing Foreign Nationals in Research Positions: An Immigration Perspective	Nina Juncewicz
October 16th	Entrepeneurship	Joseph Salamone	Business Plans
October 23rd	Field Trip to Zeptometrix	Staff
October 30th	The A, B, C's of Budgeting	Dan Liebel
November 6th	Oversight Boards	Sandra Buitrago and Richard Harvey
November 13th	Private industry comparison with academic bioscience	Jim Hengst
November 20th	Ethics in the Research Process	Camlle Wicher	Belmont Report Ethics presentation
November 27th	Holiday
December 4th	Open date
December 11th	Open date