The motivations most frequently cited by investigators who withheld data were that sharing required too much effort (80 %) and that scientists needed to protect the ability of a graduate student, postdoctoral fellow, or juniorfacultymember to publish (64 %).
In 2007, Chris was awarded the Dorsett L. Spurgeon prize given to the most promising postdoctoral fellows or juniorfacultymembers at Harvard Medical School.