I’ll be speaking in the Holtz brown bag series on Thursday Nov 7th, 2019. Humans as a model for animals: patterning preclinical reproducibility reform after clinical research In 2011 and 2012, two groups of pharmaceutical industry scientists published reports on their experiences attempting to reproduce results from the biomedical literature in their in-house laboratories. The…
I’ll be presenting a pre-circulated paper in the Johns Hopkins History of Science, Technology and Medicine colloquium series on October 31st, 2019. Humans as a model for animals: Patterning preclinical reproducibility reform after clinical research In 2011 and 2012, two groups of pharmaceutical industry scientists published reports on their experiences attempting to reproduce results from…
I’ll be speaking at the Retired Physician Seminar at St Mary’s Hospital on Saturday October 26, 2019. My talk will be on social and ethical issues in precision medicine, and the CME learning objectives are: Appreciate the psychosocial risks involved in non-invasive genetic testing, and understand how these risks vary depending on the information delivery…
I’ll be participating in two panels at the 4S annual meeting on Sept 4-7, 2019. The first is a panel co-organized with Sergio Sismondo, “Classic STS Papers, Re-incorporated, Reimagined, Re-enacted.” The second is a panel organized by Aaron Panofsky and David Peterson, “Reproducibility and Other Problems: Practical and Institutional Responses to Contemporary Crises in Science.”…
I’ll be giving a talk at the Animal Research Unbound conference at the University of Exeter on Monday July 15, 2019. Good science and good welfare, hand in hand?: Alignments and misalignments between experimental rigor and animal care Advocates for reform in preclinical research have argued that one reason findings from animal models often fail…
I’ll be presenting at the conference “Standards and their containers: a global history of pathogen standardization” at the University of Oxford on April 12-13, 2019. When standardization means variation: the movement towards heterogenized mouse environments In April 2018, Nature magazine published a news feature with the title “Squeaky clean mice might be ruining research: send…
