Guidance from the SAC

2012 Scientific Advisory Committee Meeting

 

Each year, the SAC provides feedback for the USTUR’s faculty and staff. This feedback comes in the form of general Comments on the work that the USTUR is conducting, and recommendations as to what the USTUR should focus on in the coming year.

Comments

1. Excellent progress on the Radiochemistry and Health Physics databases.
2. Excellent collaboration with PNNL and others.
3. High productivity was achieved on constrained funding.
4. The USTUR staff are self-motivated, qualified, and capable.
5. Continue developing mechanisms for being a resource for other research.
6. 2012 SAC Annual Meeting was very useful, and better than tele-conferences.

Recommendations

1. Improve communication with Registrants and their families.
2. Improve the recruitment of new donors.
3. Modify the prioritization plan for radiochemical analyses such that older tissue samples are of a higher priority.
4. Provide radioanalytical progress reports that show the backlog, types of samples, and percentage of progress toward eliminating the backlog.
5. Promote and report on USTUR data users: external users.
6. Establish Data Quality Objective (DQO) requirements. Specifically, address quality assurance requirements, required records, data maintenance and archiving, and “raw data” availability (data sources provided).
7. Continue to develop research collaboration.
8. Expand academic involvement with College of Pharmacy dean and WSU. Incorporate graduate students and continue involvement with the Certificate Program in Radiation Protection.
9. Encourage progress toward understanding of the ownership of USTUR samples.