Titel: New trends in humand research: How Bioethics could lead to better human research - Advanced Euro-American Course in Bioethics

Termin: 26.5.2003 bis 30.5.2003

Veranstaltungsort:
Fundación de Ciencias de la Salud
(Foundation for Health Sciences)
Madrid

Kurzbeschreibung: To foster a thorough debate and analysis of the field of biomedical human research, through a whole one-week interaction between faculty and participants, between the American and the European communitiers, considering the developments needed to face the 21st century challenges.

Of special interest for theose involed in human research and bioethics in one way or another.

Main Topics: Ethics of Biomedical human research under scrutiny: The American and European perspectives

* The Methodologies: searching for the evidence, designing the tools, the future of RCT, analysing the data, publishing, etc.

* The Regulations: The Common Rule, the FDA, the IRBs; the European Directives and regulations, the EMEA, the Research Ethics Committees, etc.

* The Funding: public and private interactions and policies, social and institutional decisions of where to spend the money.

* The Practicalities: research, individuals and society: from compliance to conscience?, research and being a patient.

Seminars in parallel sessions: Some Challenges from Basic Science Research & Applied of special social concern

Pharmacogenetics & Privacy; Functional Genomics & Target Selection; Gene Therapy & Enhancement; Cloning & Stem Cell Research; Research in special situations; Clinical innovation or human experimentation

Kontakt: USA:

Center for Bioethics
UP Health System
Mr David Magnus, PhD
3401 Market Street
Suite 320
Philadelphia, PA 19104-3308
USA

phone: +1 - 215 - 898 7136
fax: +1 - 215 - 573 4931
mail: magnus@mail.med.upenn.edu


Europe:

Institute for Bioethics
Foundation for Health Sciences
Mr Javier Júdez, MD
Avda. de Pío XII, 14
28016 Madrid
SPAIN

phone: +34 - 91 - 353 01 50
fax: +34 - 91 - 350 54 20
mail: ibioetica@fcs.es

Veranstalter: Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania, Instiute of Bioethics-Foundation for Health Sciences

Wissenschaftliche Leitung: Prof. Diego Cracia (Director, Institute of Bioethics, Foundation of Health Sciences), Prof. Arthur Caplan (Director, Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania)

Schlagworte: Embryonale Stammzellen, Ethik-Kommissionen, Eugenik/Enhancement, Gentherapie, Humanexperiment, Klonierung