Short teaser text: Paul Taylor, PhD, is the Director of the Office for Research Ethics & Integrity (OREI) at the University of Melbourne.
Full text: Paul Taylor, PhD, is the Director of the Office for Research Ethics & Integrity (OREI) at the University of Melbourne. Paul has worked in research management for 6 years. He completed a PhD in Environmental Microbiology in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Melbourne, where he teaches to second year students. Dr. Taylor is Member of the International Programs Advisory Group for the University of Melbourne; Chair of the Universitas 21 Global Issues Program; Member of the University of Melbourne Mobility Advisory Group; Member of the Crawford Fund Victorian branch. Taylor holds numerous honorary adjunct Professorial positions at Nanjing Agricultural University, China; King Mongkut Institute of Technology, Thailand; Kasetsart University, Thailand; Maejo University, Thailand; and cosupervisors graduate students at University of Malaya.
Short teaser text: Dr. Axelsen is Ombudsman for Research Integrity at Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen, the first ombudsman of this kind in Denmark.
Full text: Nils Axelsen, MD and DSc.Med, was associate professor at Copenhagen University 1969-78, and has since then had leading positions at Statens Serum Institut, including being director for the institute 1985-88. His scientific field is clinical biochemistry, especially immunochemistry, where he has contributed to development of the powerful Scandinavian electro immunochemical methods, and is editor of three handbooks on this topic. Dr. Axelsen is, since 2008, Ombudsman for Research Integrity at Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen, and so far the first ombudsman of this kind in Denmark. He is responsible for training all researchers at the Institute’s many departments in Good Research Practice (RCR). Axelsen was one of the founders of the Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty (1992), member of the medical committee 1993-2005, and has participated as investigator in many cases of al-legations for scientific dishonesty, and in some 75 decisions of the DCSD. He was member of the Nordic Council of Ministers’ Committee on Bioethics 1994-2001, chair 1995-96. Dr. Axelsen has received the Thorvald Madsen Prize and a Gold Medal from University of Aarhus. He has served on many national and international committees on scientific and science policy, and is a member of Danish Academy f or the Technical Sciences (ATV) and the Danish Academy for the Natural Sciences.
Organisation: Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
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Short teaser text: Edson Watanabe, PhD is Vice-Director of COPPE/UFRJ.
Full text: Edson Watanabe, PhD, Full Professor at the Electrical Engineering Program, COPPE. Dr. Watanabe is Vice-Director of COPPE/UFRJ. He has pioneered research integrity policies at COPPE/UFRJ, including those to tackle plagiarism in theses and dissertations. He has instituted a course, offered annually at COPPE, on scientific methodology combined with RI/RCR issues, which is open to non-COPPE participants. He has been active in discussing RI/RCR issues among COPPE’s faculty and has played a substantial role in promoting debates on the topic. Dr. Watanabe led the Commission that established COPPE´s recently released guidelines on research integrity. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and of the Sub-Committee on Research Integrity of CTEP/UFRJ. He was a member of the Organizing Committee of the II BRISPE and III BRISPE and one of the editors of the Joint Statement on Research Integrity.
Organisation: Secretariat on Responsible Conduct of Research, Canada
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Short teaser text: Susan Zimmerman is the Executive Director of the Secretariat on Responsible Conduct of Research in Ottawa.
Full text: Susan Zimmerman is the Executive Director of the Secretariat on Responsible Conduct of Research in Ottawa. SRCR is responsible for the implementation of the Tri-Agency Framework on Responsible Conduct of Research on behalf of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). The Secretariat is also responsible for the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans. She is a lawyer whose career has focused on health law and public policy. A native of Montreal, Susan received her undergraduate degree from Bryn Mawr College, civil law and common law degrees from McGill University, and a Master of Laws from the University of Toronto. Her professional experience includes positions as a senior research associate at the Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law at McGill University, Director of Legislation and Law Reform at the Canadian Bar Association, legal counsel at Health Canada and Director of Research for the Law Commission of Canada. Prior to her appointment to the Secretariat in September, 2007, Ms Zimmerman was a member of the Health Law Group at the Toronto office of a national law firm, where she represented health care institutions and a variety of health care professionals. Ms Zimmerman has also been a university lecturer in health law and ethics and a member of research ethics boards.
