
DNAdigest symposium: incentives for data sharing – London, 21/08/2015
A medical doctor may be inspired to help people recover from injury and disease, a scientific researcher may be inspired by the opportunity to provide new insights to the world, but in their daily work what inspires the activities of a researcher? Many voices in the research community are talking about what the best practices for efficient and ethical data sharing should be in order to enable reproducible research, more reliable results, and faster diagnostics. But what use is the identification of best practices if we do not know what incentives will drive the research community to adopt them? Register for the DNAdigest symposium – August 21 from 9:30am at 3rd floor Shropshire House, 10-12 Capper Street, London At this DNAdigest symposium, we are inviting researchers, clinicians, patients, policy makers and the medical genomics community to discuss: “How can we incentivise best practices for data sharing in genomics?” The agenda will contain presentations giving different perspectives on data sharing and incentives, including presentations from Wellcome Trust (the largest research funder in the UK), bioethicists, data citation experts, and from the individual researchers. — SCHEDULE — 9:30 Arrivals (Tea/coffee is available) 9:45-10:00 Introduction to DNAdigest and the outline for the day Part I “Multiple perspectives on data […]