Researcher argues moral duty of participation in biobank research
Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 12:31
in Health & Medicine
We all need medical advances. Biobank research can benefit both current and future patients, but it requires participants. So what can we do to promote research? On October 6, Joanna Stjernschantz Forsberg from the Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics at Uppsala University, will defend her PhD thesis "Biobank Research: Individual Rights and Public Benefit." In the thesis she suggests that research using stored tissue samples and data should be thought of as a natural component of healthcare, rather than something dangerous and exceptional that people must be protected from.