Persons

Written by David Blades on 12 February 2023. Posted in Persons.

Sun Ping

Name person: Sun Ping
Function description: Planning Committee
Organisation: Institute of Science and Technical Information of China
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Short teaser text: Dr. Sun Ping is Secretariat of the Office of Research Integrity, Ministry of Science and Technology of China.
Full text: Dr. Sun Ping is currently engaging in the work of Secretariat of the Office of Research Integrity, Ministry of Science and Technology of China. His role includes conducting relevant researches, the administration of the MOST-ORI-sponsored projects, and the maintenance of a dedicated research integrity website in China. He worked at the Chinese Ministry of Education from 1984 to 2002, mainly engaging in international cooperation affairs.

Written by David Blades on 12 February 2023. Posted in Persons.

Name person: Pascale Ouellet
Function description: Planning Committee
Organisation: Université de Montréal
Short teaser text: Trained as a biologist, Pascale Ouellet made graduate studies in neuroscience and molecular biology.
Full text: Trained as a biologist, Pascale Ouellet made graduate studies in neuroscience and molecular biology. She taught for 8 years at the Université de Montréal in the fields of physiopathology of psychotropic drugs, of cellular and molecular biology and of biotechnology. After a stay at the Conference of Rectors and Principals of Quebec Universities (CREPUQ) for the works of the University Programs Commission, she joined the team set up by the Quebec Minister of Research, Science and Technology in order to elaborate the Policy on Science and Innovation that was made public in 2001. Having subsequently worked in strategic planning in this ministry, she returned to UdeM in 2003 as the executive assistant to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science and, since 2007, is the executive assistant to the Vice-Rector, Research. She implemented in 2010 and currently oversees the Norms and Integrity Unit, regrouping a major part of the activities related to the responsible conduct of research: scientific probity, ethics of research involving humans, ethics in animal experimentation and controlled goods.

Written by David Blades on 12 February 2023. Posted in Persons.

Name person: Abraham Fuks
Function description: Planning Committee
Organisation: McGill University
Short teaser text: Abraham Fuks is a Professor in the Department of Medicine at McGill University
Full text: Abraham Fuks is a Professor in the Department of Medicine at McGill University. His research interests have included the immunogenetics of diabetes, the biology of tumour-associated antigens and cell adhesion molecules, and ethical aspects of the design of trials involving human subjects. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at McGill from 1995 to 2006 and was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard University in 2007-2008. His current scholarly interests include the language of medicine and its metaphoric structure and the study of narratives in the clinical dyad. Dr. Fuks is currently the Research Integrity Officer at McGill University.

Written by David Blades on 12 February 2023. Posted in Persons.

Name person: Mark S. Frankel
Function description: Planning Committee
Organisation: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Short teaser text: Mark S. Frankel, PhD, directs the Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law Program at the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Full text: Mark S. Frankel, PhD, directs the Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law Program at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He has organized several projects on research integrity and scientific misconduct, including more than a dozen workshops for university administrators, bench scientists, post-docs and graduate students and the production of a series of case studies on video for educational use. He was on the Institute of Medicine committee that produced the report, Integrity in Scientific Research: Creating an Environment That Promotes Responsible Conduct (2002). Dr. Frankel was on the planning committee for the 2nd World Conference on Research Integrity, Singapore, 2010. He is editor of AAAS's quarterly publication, Professional Ethics Report, and serves on the Science and Ethics Advisory Group at Hoffmann-La Roche-Genentech.

Written by David Blades on 12 February 2023. Posted in Persons.

Name person: Daniele Fanelli
Function description: Planning Committee
Organisation: The University of Edinburgh
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Short teaser text: Daniele Fanelli is a Leverlhulme research fellow at the University of Edinburgh.
Full text: Daniele Fanelli is a Leverlhulme research fellow at the University of Edinburgh, UK, where he uses advanced quantitative methods to help settle long-standing philosophical and sociological debates on the nature of science. The prevalence and causes of bias and misconduct are one of his main research interests. His 2009 meta-analysis on scientific misconduct is in the top 1% of Article-Level Metrics for all PLoS articles, currently counting more than 85,000 downloads. His background includes a PhD in Evolutionary Biology and a Master in Scientific Communication. He has published several papers on the evolution of cooperation in wasps, and has written over 140 popular science articles for magazines including New Scientist, L'espresso and Le Scienze, before being awarded a Marie Curie European fellowship to start his current line of research. He is a regular media commentator on issues of scientific misconduct.