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Dirk Lanzerath elected Vice-Chairman of the Central Ethics Committee at the German Medical Association (ZEKO)
The members of ZEKO elected Prof. Dr. Dirk Lanzerath as Vice-Chairman for the upcoming 10th term (2023-2025) at their constituent meeting on March 9, 2023. The new chairperson is the hematologist/oncologist Prof. Dr. Eva Winkler.
The German Medical Association has published the following press release:
https://www.bundesaerztekammer.de/presse/aktuelles/detail/vorstand-der-zentralen-ethikkommission-in-der-10-amtsperiode-gewaehlt

New in Open Access
(Imaging in the neurosciences)

Patient-Oriented Data Use

Kick-off PRACC

Kick-off irecs

New employee

New article published
Aurélie Halsband and Bert Heinrichs

Talk by Dirk Lanzerath
„Research Integrity: Principles, Challenges and Dilemmas“.
Dirk Lanzerath will give a presentation to young scientists at the workshop of the German Society of Internal Medicine (GSIM) in Berlin on 17 November 2022 and explains the function of the European "Embassy of Good Science".

Dirk Lanzerath reappointed to the Central Ethics Committee at the German Medical Association (ZEKO)
The Executive Board of the German Medical Association has reappointed Prof. Dr. Dirk Lanzerath as a member of the Central Commission for the Preservation of Ethical Principles in Medicine and its Border Areas for the term of office 2022 - 2025.
Further information is available here:
https://www.zentrale-ethikkommission.de/wir-ueber-uns/mitglieder

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New article

Job vacancy

New in Open Access

Recently published
(Nature, Ethics & Aesthetics)

Job vacancy

Job vacancy

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Media and talks by Prof. Dr. Dirk Lanzerath
- "How are National Ethics Councils able to react and change?"
Talk by Prof. Dr. Dirk Lanzerath at the 29th Meeting of the National Ethics Councils Forum on 12 May 2022 (more) - When Am I Ill? – Prof. Dr. Dirk Lanzerath in conversation with Prof. Gert Scobel (in German), April 2022 (more)
- Talk “When Am I Ill? Medical-Ethical Considerations” by Prof. Dr. Dirk Lanzerath (in German), April 2022 (more)

New article

New article

COVID-19 pandemic
Guidelines and statements on ethical aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic may be retrieved in the bioethics literature database BELIT.
Please enter the search term COVID-19 document in the Subject Keywords field.
All newspaper articles on the new coronavirus and the COVID-19 pandemic are available in the archive of the Bioethics Press Review.
Please enter the search term coronavirus.
Further online resources on ethical aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic are listed in the Bioethics Links under COVID-19.

COVID-19 pandemic: Contributions and interviews
Contributions by Prof. Dr. Dirk Lanzerath:
- COVID-19 Human Challenge Trials. What Research Ethics Committees Need to Consider. In: Research Ethics 16 (2020), 3-4, 1-11. DOI 10.1177/1747016120943635
- The Ethics of COVID-19 Tracking Apps. Challenges and Voluntariness. In: Research Ethics 16 (2020), 3-4, 1-9. DOI 10.1177/1747016120943622
Contributions by Prof. Dr. Bert Heinrichs of the Institute for Science and Ethics, IWE (more)

Dirk Lanzerath elected to the ZEKO Board of Directors
The Managing Director of the DRZE, Prof. Dr Dirk Lanzerath, has been a member of the Central Commission for the Preservation of Ethical Principles in Medicine and its Border Areas (Central Ethics Commission, ZEKO) at the German Medical Association since 2008. Within the current 9th term of office (2019-2022), he was elected to the board of the committee in November 2020.
Further information can be found in the press release (in Germen) of the German Medical Association.

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(Big Data in Medicine)

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(Synthetic biology)

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