Kristen Grace

Accomplished medical scientist and director with extensive experience in all aspects of research integrity and compliance across leading academic and governmental institutions. An expert in developing and enforcing research policies, handling challenging compliance investigations, and enhancing organizational research integrity standards. Over a decade of leadership experience in overseeing complex research compliance programs and educational initiatives.

• IX International Congress of Reproductive Immunology Young Investigator Award, 2004
• Society for Male Reproduction and Urology and the American Society of Reproductive Medicine Traveling Scholars Award, 2004
• American Society of Andrology Testes Workshop Travel Award, 2003
• Gordon Conference on Mammalian Gametogenesis & Embryogenesis Travel Award, 2002
• Scholarship Award to Frontiers in Reproduction Course, Marine Biological Institute, Woods Hole, MA, 2003
• Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Women in Science Scholarship, 1995
• Outstanding Organic Chemistry Student Award, 1994
• Outstanding Freshman Scholarship, 1993
• Liberal Arts Academic Excellence Award, SUNY Farmingdale, 1993

• Intramural Research Fellow, National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 2007, 2010
• Residency, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 2005, 2007

• Scientific Image Beautification: The Truth Isn’t Always Pretty, Communication seminar for fellowship holders working in North America, Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds at Cold Spring Harbor National Laboratories, Lloyd Harbor, NY, 02/27/2017
• Therapeutic Misconception and the Clinical Research Investigator: Beyond Protocol Deviations, Achieving Excellence in Clinical Research Scientific, Ethical and Operational Considerations, Annual Symposium, Advocate Health Care, Oak Brook, IL, 09/30/2016
• Research Misconduct in Clinical Trials, Perspectives from the Experts, Association of Research Integrity Officers Annual Meeting, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, 09/27/2016
• Demystifying the Regulators; What you need to know to get your protocol up and running, Weill Cornell Medicine and Houston Methodist, Mentored Clinical Research Training Program, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, 07/2016
• Therapeutic Misconception and the Clinical Research Investigator, 2016 OHRP Research Community Forum, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 06/21/2016
• Beyond Human Subject Protections: The ramifications of therapeutic misconception on research integrity, the dilemma for the physician researcher and the repercussions of purposeful protocol violation and data falsification, NIH Grand Rounds Series; Contemporary Issues in Graduate Medical Education, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 08/05/2015
• What is Clinical Research Misconduct? The Knowns and the Grey Areas, Annual NIH Extramural Research Integrity Training Symposium, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 07/14/2015
• Safeguarding Sound Science: ORI Experience and Oversight, NYU Symposium on Scientific Misconduct, New York University Medical Center, New York, NY, 07/13/2015
• What is Clinical Research Misconduct? The Knowns and the Grey Areas, ORI and OHRP 2nd IRB/RIO Conference, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 06/19/2015
• Current Forensic Techniques for the Detection of Manipulated Scientific Data, Forensic Workshop for Research Integrity Officers, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 05/08/2015
• Safeguarding Sound Science, Research Techniques in the Social Sciences, St. John’s University, Queens, NY, 04/17/2015
• Tales of Deception and Detection: Mastering the Art of Scientific Forensic Analysis, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 04/02/2015
• Reconciling Regulatory Frameworks: Dealing with research misconduct involving noncompliance in human subject protections, PRIM&R Advancing Ethical Research Conference, Boston, MA, 12/2014
• Clinical Research Misconduct: What You Should Know, Clinical Trials Seminar, NIH Clinical Coordinator Seminar, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 10/01/2014
• The Research Clinic: Uses for IRB Training and Education, Special Training Symposium, NIH Quality Assurance Professional Advisory Committee and IRB Chairs, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 05/14/2014
• Misconduct in Clinical Research: An ORI Perspective, Invited Speaker National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 01/2014
• Alleged Misconduct in Clinical Research: Challenges for IRBs and Research Integrity Officers, PRIM&R Advancing Ethical Research Conference, Boston, MA, 11/09/2013
• Clinical Research Misconduct: What You Should Know, Invited Speaker, NIH Quality Assurance Professional Advisory Committee, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 11/13/2013
• Research Misconduct in the Clinical Setting: ORI Experience and Oversight, Annual NIH Extramural Research Integrity Training, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 07/2013
• Detection of Manipulated Scientific Data, Invited Speaker, NIH SRO Council, NIH Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 01/2013
• Clinical Research Misconduct: What We Know, ORI and OHRP Sponsored RIO/IRB Meeting, Georgetown School of Medicine, Washington, DC, 01/2013
• Safeguarding Sound Clinical Science: Lessons from the Past, Research Integrity Misconduct Workshop, Quest for Research Excellence Conference, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 03/2012
• Safeguarding Sound Science: Avoiding the pitfalls of research misconduct and mentoring for success in scientific integrity, Dean’s Grand Rounds, State University of New York Upstate Medical College, Syracuse, NY, 09/2011
• Safeguarding Sound Science: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Research Misconduct and Mentoring for Success in Scientific Integrity, Frontiers in Reproduction, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, 05/2011
• The Lab, Frontiers in Reproduction, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, 05/2011

• Grace KS, Sinclair KD. 2009. ART, Epigenetics and Long Term Health: A developmental time bomb still ticking. Semin Reprod Med. 27(5):409-16.
• Grace KS, Bronson RA, Ghebrehiwet B. 2003. Ligation of the C1q Receptor, gC1qR/p33, Associates with Both the avb3 Integrin and Vitronectin and Causes Protein Phosphorylation. Fertil Steril. 80(sup 3).
• Grace KS, Bronson RA, Ghebrehiwet B. 2002. Surface Expression of Complement Receptor gC1q-R/p33 Is Increased on the Plasma Membrane of Human Spermatozoa after Capacitation. Biol Reprod. 66: 823-9.

• Wicklander-Zulawski Non-Confrontational Interrogation and Interview Techniques, 2015
• Postgraduate Course - Men’s Health: On the Horizons of Andrology, American Society of Andrology, Baltimore, MD, 2004
• Gamete Development, Genetics and Testing in Male Reproductive Failure, American Society for Reproductive Medicine Postgrad Program, 2003
• XVII Testes Workshop: Functional Genomics of Male Reproduction, American Society of Andrology, 2003
• Frontiers in Reproduction, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, 2001