ACCADEMIA NAZIONALE DEI LINCEI "A CALL FOR ACTION TO IMPROVE THE REPRODUCIBILITY OF BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH"

Data dell'evento: 
Martedì, 22 Maggio, 2018 - 09:00
Tipologia di evento: 
Conferenza, convegno
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ACCADEMIA NAZIONALE DEI LINCEI
CENTRO LINCEO INTERDISCIPLINARE
« BENIAMINO SEGRE »

C ONFERENCE
A CALL FOR ACTION TO IMPROVE THE REPRODUCIBILITY OF BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH
22 May 2018
Scientific Committee: Gilberto C ORBELLINI , Guido F ORNI , Carlo P ATRONO , Mario S TEFANINI

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
Tuesday 22 May
9.00 Mario S TEFANINI ( D irector of the Centro Linceo Interdisciplinare): Why this conference
Session 1 - R AISING AWARENESS ABOUT THE POSSIBLE CAUSES - I
Chair: Mario S TEFANINI (Lincei Fellow, Sapienza Università di Roma)
9.15 Giovanni B ONIOLO (Università di Ferrara): Raising awareness about the challenge of irreproducibility
9.45 Simon T AVARÉ (Cancer Research, UK Cambridge Institute & DAMTP - University of Cambridge):
Methodological and behavioral inadequacies
10.15 Pierre-Luc G ERMAIN (Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, Milan): Improving in extrapolating from model systems
and ‘-omics’ experiments
10.45 Coffee break
Session 2 - R AISING AWARENESS ABOUT THE POSSIBLE CAUSES - II
Chair: Giancarlo V ECCHIO (Lincei Fellow, Università di Napoli Federico II)
11.00 Ernesto C ARAFOLI (Lincei Fellow, Università di Padova): Scientific misconduct: analysis of the reasons for its
dramatic increase
11.30 Gerry M ELINO (Università di Roma Tor Vergata): The responsibilities of referees and publishers. The problem of
"predatory journals"
12.00 Carlo P ATRONO (Lincei Fellow, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome): Reproducibility issues in clinical
drug development
Session 3 - M EETING NATIONAL STAKEHOLDERS TO RAISE AWARENESS AND DISCUSS MEASURES THAT SHOULD
BE TAKEN TO IMPROVE RESEARCH PRACTICE ( WHAT TO DO AT THE INSTITUTIONAL LEVEL )
Chair: Carlo P ATRONO (Lincei Fellow, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome)
12.30 Stefano F ANTONI (Fondazione Internazionale per il Progresso e la Libertà delle Scienze, Trieste): ESOF 2020 -
Science to Medicine
13.00 Federico C ALIGARIS C APPIO (Associazione Italiana Ricerca sul Cancro, Rome): Improving the reproducibility of
biomedical research: AIRC awareness and measures

Session 4 - S UPPORTING EDUCATION AND TRAINING AROUND OPTIMAL STANDARDS OF RESEARCH DESIGN
AND INTEGRITY ( WHAT TO DO AT THE EDUCATIONAL LEVEL )
Chair: Gilberto C ORBELLINI (Sapienza Università di Roma)
14.30 Angela S ANTONI (Sapienza Università di Roma): Research design and integrity is a mentoring issue
15.00 Valter T ORRI (Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri”, Milan): Methodology for clinical research
15.30 Jos van D ER M EER (Radboud University, Nijmegen Medical Centre, Netherlands): Whom should we teach about
scientific integrity, and how

Round table - H OW TO PROMOTE A NEW PARADIGM OF SCIENCE REPRODUCIBILITY
Chair: Maurizio B RUNORI (Lincei Fellow, Sapienza Università di Roma)
16.00 Participants: Stefano F ANTONI (Fondazione Internazionale per il Progresso e la Libertà delle Scienze, Trieste)
- Jos van D ER M EER (Radboud University, Nijmegen Medical Centre, Netherlands) - Massimo I NGUSCIO
(Lincei Fellow, CNR, Roma) - Andrea L ENZI (Comitato Nazionale dei Garanti per la Ricerca, Rome) - Rosario
R IZZUTO (Rettore, Università di Padova) -. Angela S ANTONI (Sapienza Università di Roma) - Simon T AVARÉ
(Cancer Research UK Cambridge, Institute & DAMTP University of Cambridge)

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