From 1993-2004, Dr. Wright served as Michigan State University’s (MSU) Assistant Vice President for Research Ethics and Standards, as well as its Intellectual Integrity Officer, overseeing most of MSU’s research regulatory compliance activity. He has also chaired the University’s Committee on Research Involving Human Subjects for 11 years.
Dr. Wright has been an expert consultant to ORI since 2001, working with both the Division of Investigative Oversight and the Division of Education and Integrity. He previously served as program officer for the Humanities, Science, and Technology Program at the National Endowment for the Humanities. David Wright is currently Professor and Chairperson of MSU’s Department of Community, Agriculture, Recreation, and Resource Studies, where he teaches and writes on the history of science and technology and the responsible conduct of research. Dr. Wright has a bachelor’s degree from Princeton and a PhD in American Studies from MSU.
Dr. Dahlberg has been the Director of the Division of Investigative Oversight of the Office of Research Integrity since April 2006. He received a B.A. from Brandeis University in 1963 and a Ph.D. in in microbiology from Purdue University in 1968. After post-doctoral fellowships at the Public Health Research Institute of the City of New York and at Rutgers University, he spent sixteen years at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda carrying out research on retroviruses with an initial emphasis on ultrastructure and virus classification. Subsequently he focused increasingly on immunoassay development and molecular biology and, using all of these technologies, began research on lentiviruses in 1980. In 1988, Dr. Dahlberg joined a small biotechnology company as director of research and development, where he developed procedures for growing macrophage cells in serum-free medium and using them to test drugs for their ability to inhibit HIV replication. Dr. Dahlberg joined the Office of Scientific Integrity in 1992, just prior to its being reorganized into ORI. While at ORI, he has developed a variety of computer-aided techniques to assist in analysis of data and detection of evidence of data falsification.
Before joining ORI on March 27, 2009, Dr Galland was Director of the UC Davis Laboratory Management Institute. While at the Institute, Dr. Galland developed a curriculum and unique pedagogy for educating scientists in the practical business of running a research program. This pedagogy was described in the journals Nature, Science, Cell, The Scientist, The Chronicle of Higher Education, the National Postdoctoral Association’s the PostdocKET, and Laboratory Manager. The curriculum was delivered through an annual program for postdoctoral scholars at UC Davis and a summer Certificate Program offered to people worldwide. Both programs consisted of 140 contact hours of instruction. Additional educational programs were conducted for industry, government, national laboratories, other academic institutions, and scientific associations.
Dr. Galland also taught a graduate course for the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine entitled “Philosophy and Ethics for the Biological Scientist”. In 2004, Dr. Galland became one of 20 partners in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute/Burroughs Wellcome Scientific Management Program for Postdoctoral Fellows and Faculty and acknowledges their influence on the program at UC Davis.
Dr. Galland received both his M.S. and Ph.D. at UC Davis. Before returning to UC Davis, he was Professor of Veterinary Medicine at Kansas State University where he taught public health and zoonotic diseases and conducted research on food-borne pathogens.
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