Description

The VCU Office of Research and VCU Libraries launch a new speaker series, the Sanger Series, designed to address ethical issues and trends that affect research, scholarship and creative expression. A focus of the series is ethics and intellectual property in the digital age. John Wilbanks, a well-known national voice on many topics related to medical and health informatics and human subjects in the digital age, presents the inaugural lecture. A reception follows the talk.

The event is free and open to all, but please register. Parking is available for a fee in the 8th Street parking deck. If special accommodations are needed, please contact the VCU Libraries Events Office at (804) 828-0593.

About the Speaker

John Wilbanks is chief commons officer for Sage Bionetworks and senior adviser for the National Coordination Office for Networking and Information Technology Research and Development. A pioneer and ardent campaigner for data sharing by scientists and wider adoption of open-access publishing, Wilbanks has been featured by Scientific American and been named a game-changer and revolutionary mind by Seed magazine and a visionary by the Utne Reader. He has lectured around the world, including presenting a TEDTalk.

Image: Sanger Series: The Politics of Personal Research Data, by Jeff Bland