John Wilbanks

John Wilbanks is a Senior Fellow at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and runs the Consent to Research Project.[1]

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Education and career

John Wilbanks grew up in Knoxville, TN. He attended Tulane University and received a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy in 1994.[2][3] He also studied modern letters at the Sorbonne in Paris.[2]

From 1994 to 1997, he worked in Washington, DC as a legislative aide to Congressman Fortney "Pete" Stark. During this time Wilbanks was also a grassroots coordinator and fundraiser for the American Physical Therapy Association.[3] John was the Berkman Center for Internet & Society's first Assistant Director from the fall of 1998 to the summer of 2000. There he led efforts in software development and Internet-mediated learning, and was involved in the Berkman Center's work on ICANN.[3]

While at the Berkman Center, Wilbanks founded Incellico, Inc., a bioinformatics company that built semantic graph networks for use in pharmaceutical research and development. He served as President and CEO, and led to the company's acquisition in the summer of 2003.[3][4] He has also served as a Fellow at the World Wide Web Consortium on Semantic Web for Life Sciences, was a Visiting Scientist in the Project on Mathematics and Computation at MIT,[5] and was a member of the National Advisory Committee for PubMed Central.[3] He is a member of the Board of Directors for Sage Bionetworks and 1DegreeBio. He also sits on the advisory board of Boundless Learning. He is an original author of the Panton Principles for sharing data.

Science Commons

John worked at Creative Commons from October 2004 to September 2011.[4] As vice president of science he ran the Science Commons project. He has been interviewed by Popular Science magazine,[6] KRUU Radio,[7] and BioMed Central to discuss Science Commons.[8]

Scientific American in 2011 featured Wilbanks in The Machine That Would Predict The Future [9]. Seed magazine named Wilbanks among their Revolutionary Minds of 2008, as a "Game Changer" [10] and the Utne Reader named him in 2009 as one of "50 visionaries who are changing your world".[11]. He frequently campaigns for wider adoption of open access publishing in science[12] and the increased sharing of data by scientists[13][14].

Footnotes

  1. ^ "Glossary of Terms". Consent to Research online. http://weconsent.us/glossary. 
  2. ^ a b "Wilbanks Bio". Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam. http://berlin4.aei.mpg.de/biography/Bio_Wilbanks_OA06.pdf. Retrieved 2008-06-21. 
  3. ^ a b c d e "John Wilbanks". Berkman Center for Internet and Society. 2008-01-09. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/234. Retrieved 2008-06-18. 
  4. ^ a b "People - Creative Commons". Creative Commons. http://creativecommons.org/about/people/#34. Retrieved 2008-06-18. 
  5. ^ Project on Mathematics and Computation
  6. ^ Seiff, Abby (2007-07-19). "Will John Wilbanks Launch the Next Scientific Revolution?". Popular Science. http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2007-07/will-john-wilbanks-launch-next-scientific-revolution. Retrieved 2008-06-18. 
  7. ^ Raman, Sundar (2007-01-23). "16 - Open Views - John Wilbanks, Science Commons". http://www.kruufm.com/node/414. Retrieved 2008-08-08. 
  8. ^ Weitzman, Jonathan B. (2004-12-20). "Science Commons makes sharing easier". Open Access Now. http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/23/features. Retrieved 2008-06-18. 
  9. ^ "The Machine That Would Predict The Future". Scientific American. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-machine-that-would-predict/. Retrieved 2011-11-18. 
  10. ^ "John Wilbanks - Science Commons". Seed Media Group. http://revminds.seedmagazine.com/revminds/member/john_wilbanks/. Retrieved 2009-01-06. 
  11. ^ "John Wilbanks - Executive Director, Science Commons". Utne Reader. http://www.utne.com/Science-Technology/John-Wilbanks-Science-Commons-Creative-Scientific-Research.aspx. Retrieved 2009-10-16. 
  12. ^ Wilbanks, J. (2006). "Another reason for opening access to research". BMJ 333 (7582): 1306–1308. doi:10.1136/sbmj.39063.730660.F7. PMC 1761190. PMID 17185718. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1761190.  edit
  13. ^ Field, D.; Sansone, S. -A.; Collis, A.; Booth, T.; Dukes, P.; Gregurick, S. K.; Kennedy, K.; Kolar, P. et al. (2009). "'Omics Data Sharing". Science 326 (5950): 234–236. doi:10.1126/science.1180598. PMC 2770171. PMID 19815759. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=2770171.  edit
  14. ^ Wilbanks, J. (2011). "Openness as infrastructure". Journal of Cheminformatics 3 (1): 36. doi:10.1186/1758-2946-3-36. PMC 3197551. PMID 21999327. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=3197551.  edit

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