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Announcing the ASAPbio Funders’ Workshop

On May 24th, 2016, representatives of funding agencies and existing preprint servers as well as junior and senior scientists will meet at the NIH to coordinate their efforts in providing a preprint service for the biology community. The attendees of this small workshop are listed below.

— ASAPbio organizers

ASAPbio Funders’ Workshop attendees

Needhi Bhalla UC Santa Cruz Associate Professor
Philip Bourne NIH Associate Director for Data Sciences
Martin Chalfie Columbia University Professor, Nobel Laureate
Francis Collins NIH Director
Daniel Colón-Ramos Yale University Associate Professor, Organizer
Maryrose Franko Health Reesarch Alliance Executive Director
James Fraser UCSF Assist. Professor, Organizer
Michele Garfinkel EMBO Manager, Science Policy Programme
Paul Ginsparg Cornell University arXiv Founder
Judith Glaven HHMI Senior Science Officer
Eric Green NIH Director, Human Genome Research Institute
Josh Greenberg Sloan Foundation Director DIgital Information Technology
Carol Greider Johns Hopkins Medical School Professor, Nobel Laureate
Jennifer Hansen Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Officer, Knowledge & Research
Michael Hendricks McGill University Assist. Professor
Jason Hoyt PeerJ PeerJ, CEO
John Inglis Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory bioRxiv Director
Robert Kiley Wellcome Trust Head of DIgital Services, Wellcome Library
Harlan Krumholz Yale University Professor of Medicine
Paul Lasko CIHR Scientific Director, Institute of Genomics
Michael Lauer NIH Deputy Director of Extramural Research
Maria Leptin EMBO Director
David Lipman NIH Director, NCBI
Cecy Marden Wellcome Trust Open Access Project Manager
Elizabeth Marincola PLOS PLOS, CEO
Johanna McEntyre EMBL-EBI Director, Europe PMC
Cameron Neylon Curtin University Former Advocacy Director of the Public Library of Science
Tony Peatfield Medical Research Council, UK Corporate Affairs Director
Jessica Polka Harvard Medical School Postdoctoral Fellow, Organizer
Omar Quintero U. Richmond Assist. Professor
Brooke Rosenzweig Helmsley Trust Program Officer
Jane Silverthorne NSF Deputy Assistant Director
John Spiro Simons Foundation Deputy Scientific Director, SFARI
Michael Stebbins Laura and John Arnold Foundation VP Science and Technology
Nils Stenseth European Research Council U. Oslo and ERC Scientific Council
Carly Strasser Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Program Officer, Data Driven Discovery Initiative
Neil Thakur NIH Special Assistant to the Deputy Director of Extramural Research
Vitek Tracz F1000Research F1000, Founder
Ron Vale UCSF Professor, Organizer, Lasker Awardee
Harold Varmus Weil Cornell Medical School Professor, Organizer, Nobel Laureate
K VijayRaghavan Dept. of Biotechnology, India Secretary
Richard Wilder Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Associate General Counsel
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