The panelists include:
Prof. Dr. Matthias Kleiner, President of the German Research Foundation, Bonn
Prof. Dr. Klaus Rajewsky, Immunologist, Immune Regulation and Cancer, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin (Laureate 2008)
Prof. Dr. Ilme Schlichting, Biophysicist, Director of the Department of Biomolecular Mechanisms, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg (Laureate 1998)
Prof. Dr. Peter Seeburg, Biochemist, Director of the Department of Molecular Neurobiology, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg (Laureate 1992)
Prof. Dr. Takao Shimizu, Biochemist, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan (Laureate 2000)
Chaired by Volker Stollorz, Science Journalist, Cologne

How Does the Scientific Community Ensure Quality and Trust?

Transparency as well as an open and consistent handling of scientific misconduct are essential to ensure quality and trust. Given the increasing complexity of research, both these issues become more and more challenging. How and with what criteria can we measure the quality of research? How can information on research projects and findings be made visible also to a non-expert public? How effective is the scientific community’s system of self-monitoring when it comes to dealing with scientific misconduct? These and other questions will be at the heart of the session’s debate.

These and other questions will be discussed by:
Prof. Dr. Stefan Hornbostel, Institute for Research Information and Quality Assurance, Berlin
Prof. Sir Ian Wilmut, Embryologist, Chair of the Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine (SCRM), University of Edinburgh, UK (Laureate 2002)
Prof. Dr. Ronald D.G. McKay, Stem Cell Researcher, Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore, MD, USA (Laureate 2004)
Chaired by Volker Stollorz, Science Journalist, Cologne

Following the panel discussion, the 2012 Ernst Schering Prize winner Prof. Dr. Matthias Mann, Director of the Department of Proteomics and Signal Transduction at the Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, will give a public lecture on “Modern Mass Spectronic Technology for Biology and Biomedicine.”