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Melissa Anderson

  • Name person: Melissa Anderson
  • Function description: Conference Co-Chair
  • Organisation: University of Minnesota
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  • Short teaser text: Melissa S Anderson is Associate Dean of Graduate Education and Professor of Higher Education at the University of Minnesota.
  • Full text: Melissa S. Anderson, Ph.D., is Associate Dean of Graduate Education and Professor of Higher Education at the University of Minnesota. She serves on the Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Ethics Committee of the American Educational Research Association,and the editorial boards of Science and Engineering Ethics, Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, and Accountability in Research. She chaired the committee that wrote the Ethical Principles for the Association for the Study of Higher Education. Dr. Anderson's work over the past 25 years has been in the areas of research integrity, research misconduct, and academy-industry relations. Her research, funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, has focused on the research environment in relation to research integrity. Dr. Anderson was principal investigator of an NIH-funded study of international research collaborations, and she recently co-edited (with Nick Steneck) the volume International Research Collaborations: Much to be Gained, Many Ways to Get in Trouble (Routledge Press).

Montreal 2013, Rio de Janeiro 2015

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Nicholas Steneck

  • Name person: Nicholas Steneck
  • Function description: Conference Co-Chair
  • Organisation: Professor of History in LSA at the University of Michigan, US Office of Research Integrity (ORI)
  • Picture of person: Nicholas Steneck
  • Short teaser text: Nicholas H. Steneck is a Professor Emeritus of History of Science, University of Michigan and an independent research integrity consultant.
  • Full text: From the University of Michigan: In the early-1980s, Professor Steneck chaired the University of Michigan’s pioneering Task Force on Integrity in Scholarship and later the US Public Health Service Advisory Committee on Research Integrity (1991-1993). As a US Office of Research Integrity (ORI) consultant (2000-2010), he helped establish the ORI Research on Research Integrity Program and organized four ORI Research on Research Integrity Conferences (2000, 2002, 2004, 2006). With ORI support, he also established the World Conference on Research Integrity (Lisbon 2007, Singapore 2010, Montreal 2013, Rio 2015, Amsterdam 2017). He was instrumental in the drafting and adoption of the Singapore Statement on Research Integrity (2010).His historical publications range from discussions of medieval science (Science and Creation, 1976) to modern policy disputes (The Microwave Debate, 1984). He has published articles on the history of research misconduct policy, responsible conduct of research instruction, the use of animals in research, classified research and academic freedom, the role of values in university research, research on research integrity and a novel approach to informed consent for biorepositories. His research integrity publications include the widely used ORI Introduction to the Responsible Conduct of Research (2004, 2007; translated into Japanese, Chinese, and Korean). In recognition of his work on research integrity and the history of science, he became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1992.In 2012, Professor Steneck began working as an author and advisor for the international, online education company, Epigeum (owned by Oxford University Press). He is currently Epigeum’s lead advisor for research integrity and the innovative assessment program known as “Impact.” In 2016 he was recognized as a Distinguished Friend of Oxford University for his years of advice on Oxford’s research integrity policies and programs. Professor Steneck was Co-chair of the 1st World Conference on Research Integrity (Lisbon, 2007), Co-chair of the 2nd World Conference on Research Integrity (2010, Singapore), member of the Advisory Board of the 4th World Conference on Research Integrity (Rio de Janeiro, 2015), and Co-chair of the 5th World Conference on Research integrity (Amsterdam, 2017).
  • External link: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~nsteneck/

Lisbon 2007, Singapore 2010, Amsterdam 2017

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Tony Mayer

  • Name person: Tony Mayer
  • Function description: Conference Co-Chair
  • Organisation: Senior Science Policy Adviser, European Science Foundation (ESF)
  • Location - country: now with the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  • Picture of person: Tony Mayer
  • Short teaser text: Tony Mayer Europe Representative and Research Integrity Officer Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  • Full text: From QS Worldwide: Tony is a geologist educated at the University of Manchester. He then undertook research at Leicester University and University College London. His career has included the UK Natural Environment Research Council and the Ocean Drilling Program, based at the University of Rhode Island (USA). Later he joined the European Science Foundation (ESF), Strasbourg France. He served as the first Director of the COST Office, Brussels and as the Scientific Secretary of the European Research Advisory Board. He is Treasurer and Governing Board member of EuroScience. In 2007, Tony joined the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore where, inter alia, he developed and implemented its research integrity policy. He now serves as the university's Research Integrity Officer. He coorganised and co-Chaired the First and Second World Conferences on Research Integrity (Lisbon and Singapore). Mr Mayer was Co-chair of the 1st World Conference on Research Integrity (Lisbon, 2007), Co-chair of the 2nd World Conference on Research Integrity (2010, Singapore), member of the Advisory Board of the 4th World Conference on Research Integrity (Rio de Janeiro, 2015), and Co-chair of the 5th World Conference on Research integrity (Amsterdam, 2017).

Lisbon 2007, Singapore 2010, Amsterdam 2017

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De Ming Chau

  • Name person: De Ming Chau
  • Function description: Senior Lecturer
  • Organisation: Universiti Putra
  • Location - country: Malaysia
  • Picture of person: De Ming Chau
  • Short teaser text: Dr. De Ming Chau is a molecular biologist with experience in cancer stem cell research.
  • Full text: He is the co-founder of the Young Scientists Network-Academy of Sciences Malaysia (YSN-ASM) Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) Programme and he has been chairing the YSN-ASM Science Integrity Working Group since 2017. Dr. Chau is the co-editor of the Malaysian Educational Module on RCR and a contributor of the Malaysian Code of Responsible Conduct in Research. Currently, Dr. Chau is a committee member of the National Committee on Research Integrity (Malaysia) and the Co-Chair of the Association of Southeast Nations (ASEAN) RCR Project.

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Lyn Horn

  • Name person: Lyn Horn
  • Function description: Head of Office of Research Integrity
  • Organisation: University of Cape Town
  • Location - country: Cape Town, South Africa
  • Picture of person: Lyn Horn
  • Short teaser text: Lyn Horn is currently the Director of the Office of Research Integrity at the University of Cape Town, South Africa and an Extraordinary [Honorary] Associate Professor in the Centre for Applied Ethics at Stellenbosch University.
  • Full text: She is a medical doctor with a PhD in Bioethics and worked as a clinician in the public health sector for the first twenty years of her career before transitioning to an academic work environment in 2004. She has been working in the fields of research ethics and integrity for the last almost twenty years and served as the Research Integrity Officer (RIO) at Stellenbosch University from 2011 to 2016. In her current role she is responsible for the institutional-wide promotion of responsible research practice, including RCR education and training. She was the South African Co-Chair for the 7th WCRI 2022.

Board, Cape Town 2022

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