John Wilbanks
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Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is a non-profit foundation based in Kansas City, Missouri. It has an asset base of $2 billion...
and runs the Consent to Research Project.
Education and career
John Wilbanks grew up in Knoxville, TN. He attended Tulane UniversityTulane University
Tulane University is a private, nonsectarian research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States...
and received a Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Arts
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in Philosophy
Philosophy
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in 1994. He also studied modern letters at the Sorbonne
Sorbonne
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in Paris
Paris
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.
Pete Stark
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. During this time Wilbanks was also a grassroots coordinator and fundraiser for the American Physical Therapy Association
American Physical Therapy Association
A Historical PerspectivePhysical therapists formed their first professional association in 1921, called the American Women's Physical Therapeutic Association. Led by President Mary McMillan, an executive committee of elected officers governed the Association, which included 274 charter members...
. John was the Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is a research center at Harvard University that focuses on the study of cyberspace. Founded at Harvard Law School, the center traditionally focused on internet-related legal issues. On May 15, 2008, the Center was elevated to an interfaculty initiative of...
'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
ICANN
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.
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. He has also served as a Fellow at the World Wide Web Consortium
World Wide Web Consortium
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on Semantic Web for Life Sciences, was a Visiting Scientist in the Project on Mathematics and Computation at MIT, and was a member of the National Advisory Committee for PubMed Central
PubMed Central
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. 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. As vice president of science he ran the Science Commons project. He has been interviewed by Popular SciencePopular Science
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magazine, KRUU Radio, and BioMed Central to discuss Science Commons.
Scientific American
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in 2011 featured Wilbanks in The Machine That Would Predict The Future . Seed magazine
Seed (magazine)
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named Wilbanks among their Revolutionary Minds of 2008, as a "Game Changer" and the Utne Reader
Utne Reader
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named him in 2009 as one of "50 visionaries who are changing your world".. He frequently campaigns for wider adoption of open access publishing in science and the increased sharing of data by scientists.