“A Charter of Principles and a BiobankEthics Consultation Serviceas formal resources to promote an expert ethical guidance to biobank research”
Elena Ferioli
University of Insubria, Department of Biotechnologies and Life Science, Varese, Italy
Background
In recent years theUniversity of Insubria is committed to providespecific training programsin Bioethics, Applied EthicsandClinicalEthicsaimed to face to critical topics related to medicine, research and biobanking.Actually we design the “Insubria Biobank” as a research infrastructure with an appropriate “Ethical Framework” and responsiblefor the custody of biospecimensanddata according to a modelof “CharitableTrust”.Soto answercertain questionsis crucial: How could biobank respect thetrustplaced in it? What resources could promotethe goalsof the biobank? Do professionals require a specific ethical training?
Aims
The biobank should become an “ethical subject” through a Charter of Principles and an institutional Biobank Ethics Consultation Services (BECS).
Methods
1) To process a Charter of Principles and a template for an informed consent with reference to ourethical evaluation and to the international literature.
2) To develop educational training programs for BECS.
Results
1) Designs of theCharter of Principles and of the “broad” informed consent were drafted.
2) Educational training programs based on meeting and conferences, Master, PhD, and practical stage were organized.
Discussion
The complexity of biobank research has recently increased generating a number of novel ethical issues. Our purpose is to offer a Charter of Principles and BECS to help scientists, health care professionals, patients, donors, institutional review board and policymakers, better navigate the ethical issues in biobanking.
Conclusion
Anexploratory survey to identify the willingness to use BECS represent our future research plan.
Biography
Elena Ferioli obtaineda degree inBiology from theUniversity of Insubria(1998)whereshe undertakeher academic careerattaining two PhD, the first in Evolutionary Biologyand Development(2002) and the second in Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology. Since 2007 she cover a technical and scientific role in the Department of Medicine and Public Health and recently in the Department of Biotechnology and Life Science, in support to forensic research.
Since 2010,with higher education courses inClinical Risk Managementand in Ethics Health Management,she dealwith researchin bioethicswith particular referenceto geneticsandbiobanks.
Presenting author details
Full name: Elena Ferioli
Contact number:0332-217503/548
Sessionname/ number:Track 17 “Biobank Ethics”; 17-2 “Ethical considerations sourrounding biobanking and biorepository operation”
Category: E-poster