Greater than the Sum of Our Parts: Promoting Scientific Collaboration
June 22 at 7:30 am PDT / 10:30 am EDT
Competition has always been part of science and can have positive effects. However, hyper-competition for the resources and positions needed to conduct science suppresses the creativity, cooperation, risk-taking, and original thinking required to make discoveries. If funders took a different approach, prioritizing collaborative behavior such as data sharing and open access publications, would science move faster? COVID-19 showed the world what's possible when scientists collaborate: Accelerated vaccine development, lives saved, and a hope that real system change in medical research is within reach. The speakers in this session will tell a story of cooperation and collaboration. They will show how lessons learned from COVID-19 can be applied to create better research systems.
Moderator
Rick Berke
Co-Founder and Executive Editor, STAT
Speakers
Cori Bargmann
Head of Science, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Manuel Guzman
President, CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society
Kathryn Richmond
Senior Director, The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group, Allen Institute
Randy Schekman
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; 2013 Nobel Laureate