#EBW25 Previews: 9A: Ethics Café
The Ethics Café is an established event of the Europe Biobank Week conferences, where all stakeholders come together in an informal setting to voice their thoughts on the role that ethics frameworks play in the context of biomedical innovation. Grab your coffee and join us for a interactive discussion.
This session will be chaired by:
Prof. Dr. Roland Jahns
Prof. Dr. Roland Jahns is a full professor of translational medicine at the University of Würzburg and director of the Interdisciplinary Bank of Biological Materials and Data (ibdw) at the University and University Hospital Würzburg. He serves as chair of the Medical Ethics Committee of the University of Würzburg and is a member of the Steering Committee of the German Biobank Alliance (GBA).
Additionally, he has been a board member of the Working Party of the German Medical Ethics Committees since 2022 and was appointed the German representative for BBMRI-ERIC ELSI Services in 2014.
A specialist in cardiology and internal medicine, Prof. Dr. Jahns has held numerous leadership roles in translational research and bioethics, contributing significantly to national and European biomedical initiatives.
Dr. Peggy Manders
Dr. Peggy Manders is trained in epidemiology (biomedical sciences) and received a PhD on biomarker research in breast cancer. She has been active in the field of biobanking since 2008 when she was involved with the national biobank collection Hereditary Colorectal Cancer. Since its founding in 2012, she has worked at the Radboud Biobank in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. In 2020 she became the head of the central biobank facility of the Radboud University Medical Center.
Dr. Manders is also co-lead of the Health-RI theme Biobanks & Collections and works on the Health-RI mission to make health data and biomaterials FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) for research and innovation.
Session details
- Date: Friday 16 May
- Time: 09:00-10:30