Événements

“It is not me, it is just my brain who did it”. This could become in the future a common strategy that defendants may use in the courtrooms: admitting they committed a serious crime but arguing that, because of some...

Whether or not to provide research results or incidental findings to participants whose specimens and/or data are collected in research biobanks is a matter requiring urgent policy attention. Biobanks and research repositories are beginning to address the issue. Considerations include...

Over the past thirty years, there has been considerable debate over the legal status of human body parts. While the body and biomaterials were traditionally considered to be outside of the realm of property in common law jurisdictions, recent legal...

Thirty years ago, HIV was a death sentence with no vaccine, no treatment, and no cure. Its high morbidity and association with stigmatized sexual and drug-use behaviors led to the rise of HIV exceptionalism, the tendency to treat HIV differently...

The killing in Pakistan of polio vaccination workers serves as the most recent example of health-related moral hazards that can arise in the pursuit of national and global security objectives. The deaths have been attributed to the Taliban, acting against...

This two day workshop will explore the governance mechanisms of international research consortia, with a view to developing a policy which can be used by future research collaborations. It will act as a ‘proof of principle’ for the ELSI 2.0...

The Brocher Summer Schools or Summer Academies bring together distinguished professors from different disciplines and countries and highly promising researchers willing to acquire a strong background on a chosen topic. Beside a high level of teaching, a limited number of participants gives the...

The assessment of competence among adolescents, whether in the context of clinical care or research is difficult: it depends heavily on the legal, family, religious and cultural context, the complexity of situations posing ethical dilemnas as well as the bio-psychosocial...

The aim of organising a Workshop at the Brocher Fondation is to prepare a book on contemporaneous “scientific promises” (see the annexed file Projet éditorial). The publication will constitute an achievement of 5 years of research coordinated by the project...

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...