Professor Vaux, Deputy Director of the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow, will present several examples to illustrate just how widespread this problem is and why it is occurring.  He will also suggest ways of tackling this problem to foster and promote the integrity of science, including improved methods of dealing with allegations of research misconduct.

 

Professor Vaux is an internationally acclaimed molecular biologist who lectures worldwide on research ethics.  He has a medical degree and PhD from the University of Melbourne, was a Fellow in Pathology at the Stanford School of Medicine USA, and was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2003.  He has been awarded the MacFarlane Burnet Medal and the list of other awards granted to him is a long one!

 

Professor Vaux’s research has focused on the molecular mechanisms by which cells kill themselves, and how failure of this process can result in malignant disease.  When not conducting research, he advocates staunchly for the establishment in Australia of an office or ombudsman for research integrity.