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Responsible Conduct of Research course to be held A course on the Responsible Conduct of Research is being offered to all postdoctoral fellows and interested faculty at MUSC beginning on Monday, Sept. 22. Participants will meet from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Monday mornings for six weeks in room 410 (Weight Management Conference Room) located in the Department of Psychiatry.  The course will cover historical events leading to the current day policies on the conduct of research, foundations of ethical decision making, and aspects of conducting research, reporting research, peer review, handling research data, mentoring, research misconduct, conflicts of interest, gene therapy, and the use of human and animal subjects in research.  For registration information, contact William Boggan, Ph.D., via e-mail bogganwo@musc.edu. Provide your name, telephone number, e-mail address, mentor's name, department, room number and building in which you work.         Catalyst Online is published weekly, updated as needed and improved from time to time by the MUSC Office of Public Relations for the faculty, employees and students of the Medical University of South Carolina. Catalyst Online editor, Kim Draughn, can be reached at 792-4107 or by email, catalyst@musc.edu. Editorial copy can be submitted to Catalyst Online and to The Catalyst in print by fax, 792-6723, or by email to petersnd@musc.edu or catalyst@musc.edu. To place an ad in The Catalyst hardcopy, call Community Press at 849-1778.