Events

Une conférence de Matthieu Ricard, auteur, photographe et moine, avec pour thème : Cerveau et méditation : enjeux scientifiques et sociétaux.  Sur le site du Campus Biotech, accueil dès 12 h le 30 septembre 2014. La conférence est organisée par la Fondation Brocher...

The development of novel diagnostics, therapeutics and health services is increasingly predicated on insights provided by genomic medicine. Over the last two decades nations across the globe have invested in large-scale scientific projects that sequence and analyze genomic variation within...

HIV positive individuals are living longer, healthier and more productive lives with the advent of anti-retroviral therapies that are becoming more affordable worldwide. Those individuals who are healthy, and establishing stable relationships, are desiring children, desiring a family. This is...

More than ever the prospects of neuroscience research are bringing to the forefront major benefits and ethical challenges for medicine and society. The ethical concerns related to patients with mental health and neurological problems as well as emerging social and...

There is broad evidence indicating that the total number of persons experiencing disability has increased substantially in recent times, and that this is partly due to the development of medical technology. Very premature babies who previously would have died, and...

In this symposium we ask what an interdisciplinary approach might offer to redressing the challenges now posed in the translation of ‘efficacy’ to ‘effectiveness,’ as the distinction is upheld in health and medical research. Bringing together participants from the natural and...

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...