German Reference Centre for Ethics in the Life Sciences
The German Reference Centre for Ethics in the Life Sciences (DRZE) is a national documentation and information centre for the entire field of ethics in the biomedical sciences in Germany.
The DRZE is a Central Research Institute of the University of Bonn. Upon the discontinuation of the BMBF’s funding of the project ‘Ethics in the Life Sciences’, the DRZE applied to be part of the ‘Akademienprogramm’. The project was admitted into the research programme of the German Scientific Academies on 1 January 2004, as a research project of the Project of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts.
It has the task:
- to scientifically elaborate the normative foundations of qualified judgement formation and to make them available in various formats;
- to prepare and make available information from a wide variety of fields on the current bioethical discussion in science, society and politics;
- to promote scientific networking and thus advance the German, European and international discourse.
Prinzipien der Bioethik
Tom L. Beauchamp / James F. Childress
Dirk Lanzerath / Aurélie Halsband (eds.)
Julia Pelger (transl.)
First German translation of the ‘Principles of Biomedical Ethics’ into German. It is not only an easily read interdisciplinary textbook of medical ethics for health professions, but it is also a significant contribution to applied philosophical ethics – translated and edited at the DRZE.
In Focus
The short information In Focus enables interested non-specialists in particular to get a quick overview of the debate on a current bioethical topic.
Healthcare Data in Research
Imaging in Neuroscience
Expert Reports
The aim of the series Ethics in the Life Sciences - DRZE Expert Reports is to prepare ethical problem areas from the field of the life sciences in a scientifically sound manner for interdisciplinary and societal discourse by comprehensively presenting the respective state of research and discussion.
Ethics by Design
Julia Maria Mönig / Petra Grimm / Sebastian Bernhard / Hendrik Tenbrake / Julia Berg-Postweiler / Jennifer Bosen / Clara Lemke / Marie Mirsch / Charlotte Nolles / Calvin Röhl / Ann-Kristin Winkens / Carmen Leicht-Scholten
Bioeconomy
Christina Pinsdorf / Sandra Venghaus / Sascha Stark / Wiltrud Fischer / Peter-Tobias Stoll / Erik Gawel
News
Here you will find news on current topics, projects and events of the DRZE.
EU Project RE4GREEN: Policy Brief
The first Policy Brief published by RE4GREEN underlines the need to embed aspects of environmental and climate ethics into all aspects of research.
Podcast on AI in Neuroscience
Roman Wagner spoke with Oliver Steidle and Dr. Thomas Petzold (GQMG) about the challenges and opportunities of AI in neuromedicine.
New Employee
We warmly welcome Niklas Kurzböck to the DRZE.
Research Ethics in Human and Social Sciences
Dirk Lanzerath spoke at the 10th Anniversary of the Ethics Committee for Scientific Research at LUMSA University in Rome about research ethics beyond medicine.
Third-party funded projects
RE4GREEN
The DRZE is coordinating an EU-funded project on climate and environmental ethics in research and innovation.
irecs
The DRZE is coordinating an EU-funded project on research ethics in the context of new and emerging technologies.
STRATEGIC
The DRZE is coordinating an EU-funded project on co-creating digital health technology design in sub-Saharan Africa.
PRACC
The DRZE is coordinating a BMBF-funded project on challenges of climate change in the context of intergenerational justice and freedom.
FRAIM
The DRZE is involved in a BMBF-funded project developing an ethical framework for the use of AI in neuromedicine.