WN@tL: RESEARCH ETHICS, HIGHER PURPOSES AND CHALLENGES FACING SCIENCE – LESSONS FROM A DECADE OF TEACHING PHD STUDENTS RESPONSIBLE CONDUCT OF RESEARCH
Sept 19 - 7:00PM - 8:15PM
UW Biotechnology Center, 425 Henry Mall, Room 1111, Madison, WI 53706
Cost: Free
Speakers
Robert Thome, School of Pharmacy
About the talk
What do we teach our graduate students about the ethics of science at UW-Madison? What distinguishes scientific misconduct from errors? Are we adequately preparing our students today to navigate, appreciate, and combat the many challenges facing science? What specifically are some of these challenges? We will try our best to address these questions and then discuss some ideas on what faculty might impart to our students to ready them for what is to come not only in their graduate studies but beyond. Ultimately, we hope to have some genuine back-and-forth on just what prescriptions are necessary to improve the global scientific ecosystem going forward.
About the speakers
Robert Thorne is a neuroscientist whose work has focused on leveraging deep knowledge of physiology, CNS structure, and the blood-brain and blood-cerebrospinal fluid barriers with a variety of methods in order to identify how best to deliver antibodies, oligonucleotides, and gene therapy vectors to the brain (https://apps.pharmacy.wisc.edu/sopdir/robert_thorne/). In addition to maintaining an active laboratory (lab website: https://pharmacy.wisc.edu/thorne_lab/research/), he has had significant roles teaching systems neuroscience, drug delivery, pharmacokinetics, research ethics and other graduate and professional courses while a member of the faculty in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Pharmacy. He previously delivered a WN@TL lecture entitled ‘Special delivery: how drugs and other substances get into and move around within the brain and spinal cord’ on March 5, 2017 in honor of Brain Awareness Week (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prKmJLn3jAc&t=419s). Thorne has had a longstanding interest in research ethics, biomedical ethics, and best practices associated with mentoring junior scientists.
Thorne earned his PhD in Pharmaceutics from the University of Minnesota in 2002 and then did postdoctoral training for 6 years in physiology and neuroscience at the New York University School of Medicine (NYC). He joined the faculty at UW-Madison in 2010. He previously chaired the 2016 ‘Barriers of the CNS’ Gordon Research Conference and is a member of the editorial boards of both Fluids and Barriers of the CNS and the Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism. He is also the elected Vice President (President-elect) of the International Brain Barriers Society, a global organization responsible for leadership and directing worldwide initiatives related to the CNS barriers and drug delivery fields.
Parking Information
Parking is available in Lot 20, located at 1390 University Avenue. Lot 20 is a three-level parking structure on the right side of University Avenue, just before Henry Mall. Lot 20 is attached to the Genetics/Biotechnology Center.
Parking in Lot 20 is one of the most convenient parking experiences on campus. Park on the top level, and you can enter the building without going up any steps. Convenient, close and step-free parking are three big reasons we hold WN@tL at the Genetics/Biotechnology Center.
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