How Decentralization Can Improve the Way The World Does Science

Explore the landscape of Decentralized Science (DeSci): key milestones, breakthrough platforms, and future directions. This talk will assess how DeSci is transforming research and paving the way for a more inclusive and efficient scientific future.

Speakers:

Patrick Joyce

ResearchHub

Patrick Joyce

Patrick Joyce is the Co-founder and COO of ResearchHub. He is a double dropout who left a PhD program in molecular biology to attend medical school, and then subsequently dropped out of medical school to build ResearchHub. During his time in academia he came to understand the true extent of how broken incentives in academic publishing hold back human knowledge creation. He co-founded ResearchHub to help accelerate science by aligning incentives within the academic marketplace.

Jeffrey Koury

ResearchHub Foundation

Jeffrey Koury

Jeffrey Koury has been deeply involved in the Web3 space since 2017, joining ResearchHub Foundation in early 2022, where he now operates as a Director of the ResearchHub Foundation. Koury acquired his bachelor's degree in physiology and neuroscience from UC San Diego before moving to biotech for two years where he worked in product development of antibodies and immunology based reagents. Koury later completed his PhD in Biomedical Sciences with a focus on Neuroinflammation and Virology at UC Riverside having published multiple papers and received various awards including the NIH F31 Predoctoral Training Fellowship.