Collaborations

Network Collaborations

Biobank Ethics

CRB participates in several European networks and EU-funded projects on the ethical aspects of biobanking: the EU Network of Excellence CCPRB (Cancer control using population based registries and biobanks) that ended recently; AutoCure - Curing autoimmune rheumatic diseases, an EU funded research project within the sixth framework programme; BBMRI.se (BioBanking and Molecular Resource Infrastructure of Sweden) funded by the Swedish Research Council; and the IMI (Innovative Medicines Initiative) funded BTCure, focusing on Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) and RA-like diseases.

Culture, Health and Bioethics

Together with researchers from universities and museums in Australia, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom, CRB has formed a multi-disciplinary network on health, culture and bioethics. The network is funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation).

The network is divided into five sub groups: 1: Bioethics and native peoples, 2: The ethics in prospecting biological diversity, 3: Native peoples and quality of life, 4: Cultures of knowledge and organisations and 5: Creativity

End of Life

CRB collaborates with ECEC, CBmE and PEALS on issues relating to end of life care and decisions. A joint anthology is in planning, edited by Ulrik Kihlbom of CRB and Marian Verkerk of ECEC. This network held a first joint workshop workshop in Singapore in January 2010.

Family Ethics

CRB collaborates with ECEC, CBmE and PEALS on family ethics health and social care. A workshop in Groningen on 28-29 April 2011 started this collaboration that also includes Hilda Lindeman and James Nelson, philosophers from Michigan State University. CRB has received funding from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond for the initiation of this international multi-centre research collaboration on family ethics. The group held its second meeting in Uppsala on October 6-7.

More information at www.family-ethics.com.

Neuroethics

Kathinka Evers of CRB has extensive collaborations on Neuroethics with Collège de France in Paris, where she is a returning guest lecturer, and the Pasteur Institute in Paris. There are also new collaborations with the Centro de Investigaciones Filosóficas (CIF), and the Institute of Cognitive Neurology (INECO) in Buenos Aires In 2010, CRB launched a web-based course in Neuroethics, with lectures by several well known researchers in the neurosciences. Neuroethics has important clinical perspectives.

Research Ethics & Bioethics

CRB collaborates with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and Karolinska Institutet within the framework of the Network for Research Ethics and Bioethics (NRB). This network was formally established on July 1 2007.

Bilateral collaborations

Centre for Biomedical Ethics (CBmE), National University of Singapore

The Centre for Biomedical Ethics (CBmE), National University of Singapore constitutes one of the nodes in the network on ethics at the end of life. They hosted a network symposium in Singapore in January 2010 where researchers from CRB, PEALS and ECEC participated. CBE and CBmE are currently planning other forms of bilateral collaboration.

Visit the CBmE website >

CESAGEN, Cardiff University and Lancaster University

CRB collaborates with Cardiff University and CESAGEN (at the universities of Cardiff and Lancaster). This collaboration constitutes a joint conference series in medical ethics. The first conference took place in Uppsala 14-16 June 2010 and was entitled “Is Medical Ethics Really in the Best Interest of the Patient?”. The next conference will be held in Cardiff in 2012.

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Expertise Center Ethics of Care at University Medical Center (ECEC), Groningen University

CRB’s collaboration with ECEC holds joint supervision of PhD students, developing of e-learning in medical ethics and we are learning from each other’s experiences of teaching medical ethics to medical students. Apart from teaching, we are also exchanging knowledge and experience in other fields. Researchers from ECEC will visit CRB to learn how from Swedish experiences of dealing with biobanking. In line with this exchange, Mare Knibbe, postdoc at ECEC presented her research on “The Good Patient” in our series of open higher seminars in May 2010. We are also planning exchanges on professionalism and ethics, and family ethics.

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Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences Research Centre (PEALS), Newcastle University

CRB and PEALS are currently working on an agreement to formalise our bilateral collaboration. This includes joint publications and project planning. Several research collaborations are underway, for example regarding the relationship between normative and empirical ethics, end of life care, reproductive ethics and patient perspectives in medical research. During 2009, Mats G. Hansson was visiting professor at PEALS, Newcastle University. Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences Research Centre (PEALS), Newcastle University. In November 2010 both centres met to discuss methodological issues at the intersection of ethics and social sciences, as well as future collaborations.

Visit the PEALS website >
Read report from centre workshop >

The Hastings Center, New York

We have an ongoing exchange with the Hastings Center. Mats G. Hansson of CRB is a Fellow of the Hastings Center and Tom Murray of the Hastings Centre has received a honorary doctorate degree from the Faculty of Medicine at Uppsala University. A Science publication resulted from Mats Hansson’s collaboration with Karen Maschke at Hastings Center.

Visit the Hastings Center website >

CODEX - Rules and Guidelines for Research

CODEX is a website with rules and gudelines for research. The website is a collaboration between CRB and the Swedish Research Council.

Visit the CODEX website>

Memberships

EACME

CRB is an associate member of the European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics (EACME).

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Uppsala University (Departments)

Faculties and research at Uppsala University

The Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics is an interfaculty centre.

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New sub groups in Culture, Health and Bioethics network

[2011-11-30] The Culture, Health and Bioethics network has organized itself into five sub groups: 1: Bioethics and native peoples, 2: The ethics in prospecting biological diversity, 3: Native peoples and quality of life, 4: Cultures of knowledge and organisations and 5: Creativity

Essays on Sami culture

[2011-11-03] Anna Lydia Svalastog runs CRB's international network collaboration on culture, health and bioethics. Together with Eva Forsgren and Jan-Erik Lundström, she has received 100 000 NOK from Fritt Ord to publish the essay collection Visions of Sápmi Cultures: Time, Change, Difference.

Culture, Health and Bioethics network grows

[2011-09-09] Håkan Tunón, Senior Research Officer at the Swedish Biodiversity Centre (CBM), Swedish University of Agricultural Scinces, joins the Culture, Health and Bioethics network.

Family ethics in health care and social services

[2011-06-21] CRB received 250 000 SEK from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond for the initiation of our international multi-centre research collaboration on family ethics. The group will hold its second meeting in Uppsala on October 6-7.

CRB attends PEALS workshop

[2010-11-10] PEALS hosted a two day workshop where the two centres met to discuss collaborations. The workshop is part of a strategic collaboration on ethics research between Uppsala University and Newcastle University. Read more >

International collaboration to meet ethical challenges

[2010-01-21] How do we meet the ethical challenges posed by stem cell research and other developments in the life sciences? How do we manage an ageing society? Uppsala University and Newcastle University have formed a strategic collaboration to meet these and other ethical challenges.
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Associate member of EACME

CRB is an associate member of the European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics (EACME)