Past events
ICUR 2016
Participating Institutions
Baruch College, City University of New York, USA
Kyushu University, Japan
University of Leeds, UK
Monash University, Australia, South Africa and Malaysia
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA
University of Warwick, UK
Keynote Speaker
ICUR 2016 welcomed Keynote Speaker Professor Andrew Coats, Academic Vice President and Director of the Monash Warwick Alliance.
Professor Coats was born in Melbourne and studied Medicine at Oxford and Cambridge. He commenced his cardiological training at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne and completed a DM at Oxford and a DSc. at Imperial College, London.
Most recently he served as Chief Executive Officer of Norwich Research Park and Professor-at-Large at the University of East Anglia, both in the UK. Concurrently, he was Visiting Professor of Medicine at The University of Sydney in Australia, Consulting Professor for Research Strategy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Guest Scientist at the Charité Medical School of Humboldt University in Berlin.
Student Director profiles
Bernard Keo and Stephanie Neal, Monash University
“Without a doubt, the highlight of our year as Monash’s student directors has been the opportunity to meet and work with all the people that make ICUR and its related programs great – our amazing counterparts from all over the world, the dedicated staff that keep ICUR running year after year, the editors at Reinvention and above all, the creative and passionate undergraduate researchers that are the heart and soul of the ICUR experience.”
John Bamping, Warwick University
“Helping out with ICUR has been an experience like no other. I chaired sessions [at ICUR 2015] where presenters from New York, Australia, Singapore and right at home in Warwick were all speaking and engaging in stimulating Q&As; ICUR embraces both how small our world now is via video link but also it’s beautiful diversity in ideas, institutions and individuals. I feel so much closer to global research and university culture than I could have ever done without ICUR. Exploring new ideas is something that is second nature with ICUR; I’ve reviewed research abstracts [for this year’s conference] ranging across subjects as different as the latest advances in biomedical sciences to whether Kanye West resembles a messianic figure!”