Nordic Biobank Research
Conference, Uppsala Konsert & Kongress, 3-4 May, in collaboration with Centrum för forsknings- och bioetik (CRB) and Svensk Nationell Forskningsinfrastruktur för Biobanking och Analys av Biologiska Prover (BBMRI.se)
The aim of the conference is to discuss Nordic collaboration in biobank based research. The Nordic countries have a long history of utilising biological samples, patient records and health registers to study disease in the population and develop new forms of intervention, treatments and medications. Biobanking, however, raises ethical questions on how to address integrity, privacy, access, legislation and protection from information excess in light of the possibilities to understand and treat diseases using new technology.
The conference will investigate opportunities and obstacles of getting new knowledge by using integrated information from registers, patient records and biobanks. We seek to address the question of whether there is a need for a wider view of autonomy for biobank based research and what this would entail, e.g regarding informed consent and ethical review? Is the perspective of public trust eroding when all focus is on informed consent? Individual rights or public good – how should the balance be made in association with biobank based research? Is ethical review of biobank based research up to date? In brief, what are the interests at stake that need protection on the one hand and promotion on the other?
State of the art of international biobank research
Kristian Hveem, Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Benefits of biobank research
Helena Kääriäinen, Professor, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland
Abstract
Biobanking and legislation. Overview on current trends and challenges
Sirpa Soini, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland
Risks of biobank research
Jan Helge Solbakk, Professor, Section for Medical Ethics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo
Abstract
Collecting samples for future uses. Case: Opt-out in the Danish biobanking
Mette Hartlev, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen
Abstract
Biobank samples and personal data – navigating the legal crossroads of registry research
Elisabeth Rynning, Professor, Faculty of Law, Uppsala University
Abstract
Council of Europe recommendation on Biobanks. Experiences and reexamination after five years of adoption
Laurence Lwoff, Bioethics Division, Council of Europe, Strasbourg
Is there a need of a wider view of autonomy for biobank based rerearch and what does it then entail, e.g regarding informed consent and ethical review?
Mats G. Hansson, Professor, Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics, Uppsala University
Abstract
Integrating clinical and research biobanks in the academic setting
Magnús Karl Magnússon, Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland
Trust and duty in health care-related biobanks: Are informed consent procedures letting patient-donors down?
Linus Johnsson, MD, PhD Student, Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics, Uppsala University
Abstract
Investment, engagement and coincidence: multiple meanings of participation in biobanks
Karoliina Snell, Researcher, Department of Social Science, University of Helsinki
Abstract
«Living consent» – electronic handling of individual rights for the public good
Heidi Thorstensen, Oslo University Hospital
In defence of the public rights, goals and trust
Angus Dawson, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Professional Ethics, Keele University
Is ethical review of biobank based research up to date?
Simon N. Whitney, Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
Abstract
How to combine information from health registry and biobanks with information collected for research within the university
Göran Elinder, Senior Professor, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
Biobank research and the decisions of ethics review boards in Sweden
Joanna Stjernschantz Forsberg, MD, PhD Student, Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics, Uppsala University
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Incidental findings and new technologies
Kári Stefánsson, MD, Dr Med, Chairman and CEO, deCODE genetics, Iceland