Titel: Stem Cell Research. Regulatory and Ethical Challenges at the Threshold of Application

Beginn: 26.4.2017, 17:00 -20:00 Uhr

Veranstaltungsort:
Münchener Kompetenzzentrum Ethik (MKE)
an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Room M210
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1

Weitere Informationen:
http://www.ttn-institut.de/panel_discussion_stemcellresearch

Kurzbeschreibung: Stem cell technology is rapidly moving into applications with large numbers of ongoing clinical trials, experimental medical treatments and uses of stem cells for pharmaceutical tests. The emerging clinical and commercial application challenges regulatory agencies worldwide. Among those challenges are international harmonization or standards, the formation of different marketing practices, and disagreements about evidence criteria between lab and clinical researchers. The guidelines for safe clinical translation by the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) have been criticized as impeding rapid progress because they prescribe time-consuming and costly procedures and built upon the infrastructure provided by big pharmaceutical companies, disadvantaging other routes to clinical innovation and poorer countries. There is huge diversity in how governments implement international standards and adjust them to local conditions and needs. A complex web of regulations must be navigated to avoid over-regulation and allow enough flexibility for local economic and scientific development. The tensions between ethical, legal and practical demands are the topic of this pubic conference.

Kontakt: Anja Pichl, M.A.
Institut Technik-Theologie-Naturwissenschaften
an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Katharina-von-Bora-Straße 11
80333 München
Tel.: +49 89 - 5595 607
Fax: +49 89 - 5595 8600
anja.pichl@elkb.de
http://www.ttn-institut.de/

Veranstalter: Institut TTN an der LMU Munich and Members of the Bavarian Research Network ForIPS in Cooperation with: Münchener Kompetenzzentrum Ethik an der LMU

Wissenschaftliche Leitung: Arne Manzeschke and Anja Pichl

Schlagworte: Embryonale Stammzellen, Embryonenforschung