QUALITY MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP
PROGRAMME
LOCATION
Auditorium 2 – Student Hub (Polo I)
WORKSHOP COORDINATORS
René Bernard
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Dr. René Bernard is a pharmacist and pharmacologist at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, serving as Coordinator for Research Value and Open Science within the NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence. His academic training in neuroanatomy and neuropharmacology laid the foundation for his ongoing commitment to improving research quality, transparency and reproducibility. Dr Bernard was instrumental in developing the EQIPD Quality System and contributed to the creation of the academically-focused PREMIER Quality System. He also co-authored the chapter “Errors and Error Management in Biomedical Research” (in the volume How Could This Happen?) exploring the use of a critical incident and error-reporting tool that helps transform lab culture around mistakes. Through institutional consulting, training and open-science advocacy he fosters sustainable, system-level quality assurance practices that strengthen methodological rigour and research integrity.
Tracey Weissgerber
EXCELScIOR team leader – CiBB-UC
Prof. Tracey Weissgerber is the team leader for the EXCELScIOR ERA Chair meta-research team, and an Invited Research Coordinator, at the University of Coimbra. Her teams’ work on data visualization has led to policy changes in many journals. Other research priorities include enhancing the reproducibility and reusability of methods and protocols, creating automated tools to detect common problems and beneficial practices in research publications, and developing programs to reward graduate students for implementing reproducible, reusable and open practices in their thesis. She is known for her hands-on courses, where participants conduct meta-research studies or apply open research practices in their own research.
