This workshop will bring together a group of social science, humanities and policy researchers who are studying – and at times actively engaged in – the emerging domain of environmental epigenetics research. Together we seek to critically engage arguments about...
A consensus building workshop, drawing together European academics working in and around empirical bioethicsmethodlodgy to consider standards of practice. Empirical bioethics The workshop seeks to bring together leading scholars from across Europe conducting research on Empirical Bioethics methodologies, with a view to...
Ever more frequently, innovation policies in biomedicine are driven by the idea that a large and growing volume of biological knowledge is being used to poor effect, as evidenced by the stagnating number of new therapeutic products being introduced on...
GENETIC ANALYSIS, GENETIC TESTING, DIRECT-TO-CONSUMER GENETIC TESTING, AND PRE-IMPLANTATION DIAGNOSTICS, ESPECIALLY NIPT, ARE EXAMPLES OF SOME OF THE FASTEST GROWING AREAS IN SCIENCE. CURRENTLY, IT IS UNKNOWN WHETHER THEY ARE A BLESSING OR A CURSE. REGULATIONS AND ETHICAL POINTS OF...
The planned workshop on tuberculosis, ethics and human rights aims to highlight emerging ethical and legal dilemmas in the treatment and prevention of the global Tuberculosis (TB) epidemic in order to identify policy gaps, elaborate a human rights-based approach and...
The Summer Academy 2015 will address a much controversial topic: ELSI in assisted Reproductive Technologies. The impact in social life, the dimension of the infertility problem, the challenges raised by new developments of ART, Donor related issues, homoparenting, public policy...
The meeting will focus on the Latin American region and bring together leading practitioners and representatives from ministries of health to discuss how childhood cancer can be integrated with national child health plans and stragies. Participants will also discuss ways...
This workshop will explore the social and ethical issues raised for the future of neuroscience by the Human Brain Project and the analogous projects being carried out in the US and some other countries. These ‘brain projects’ aim to radically...
In our genomic age, race is increasingly used to analyze genetic and other scientific data. Despite the ascendance of race-based medical research and biotechnologies, people of color in the United States and globally continue to bear the burden of health...