TY - BOOK ED - Beier, Katharina ED - Schnorrer, Silvia ED - Hoppe, Nils ED - Lenk, Christian AB - Human tissue and biobank research is of increasing importance for understanding the causes of widespread diseases and developing effective therapies. However, while the success of biobank research depends on the availability of a large number of samples and the consolidation of collections across country borders is very desirable from the perspective of researchers, the legal and ethical requirements for the procurement, storage and use of human tissue samples are rather heterogeneous across different countries. Moreover, the lack of comprehensive supranational regulation on human tissue and biobanking can be seen as posing a serious threat to transnational biomedical research. Against this background, it was one of the aims of the EU-funded Tiss.EU project (“Evaluation of Legislation and Related Guidelines on the Procurement, Storage and Transfer of Human Tissues and Cells in the European Union – an Evidence-Based Impact Analysis”) to analyse the ethical and legal regulation of human tissue and biobank research across the 27 European Member States plus Switzerland. The results of nine international workshops and three conferences are gathered in this volume. While the country reports evaluate the implementation of ethical and legal guidelines at a national level, point out their strengths and deficits, and, where required, create an evidence base for the revision of said legislation, the conference reports address more general ethical and legal issues in this field. The volume is completed by a final presentation of project’s results. AB - Human tissue and biobank research is of increasing importance for understanding the causes of widespread diseases and developing effective therapies. However, while the success of biobank research depends on the availability of a large number of samples and the consolidation of collections across country borders is very desirable from the perspective of researchers, the legal and ethical requirements for the procurement, storage and use of human tissue samples are rather heterogeneous across different countries. Moreover, the lack of comprehensive supranational regulation on human tissue and biobanking can be seen as posing a serious threat to transnational biomedical research. Against this background, it was one of the aims of the EU-funded Tiss.EU project (“Evaluation of Legislation and Related Guidelines on the Procurement, Storage and Transfer of Human Tissues and Cells in the European Union – an Evidence-Based Impact Analysis”) to analyse the ethical and legal regulation of human tissue and biobank research across the 27 European Member States plus Switzerland. The results of nine international workshops and three conferences are gathered in this volume. While the country reports evaluate the implementation of ethical and legal guidelines at a national level, point out their strengths and deficits, and, where required, create an evidence base for the revision of said legislation, the conference reports address more general ethical and legal issues in this field. The volume is completed by a final presentation of project’s results. DO - 10.17875/gup2011-386 ID - OAPEN ID: 610280 ID - OAPEN ID: OCN: 808385863 ID - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32570 KW - Tissue Engeneering KW - Biobank Research KW - Legal Issues KW - Ethics KW - European Union KW - Informed consent KW - Medical research KW - Tata Institute of Social Sciences L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32570/1/610280.pdf L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32570/1/610280.pdf L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32570/1/610280.pdf L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32570/1/610280.pdf L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32570/1/610280.pdf LA - English LK - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/36510 PB - Universitätsverlag Göttingen PY - 2011 SN - 9783863950316 TI - The ethical and legal regulation of human tissue and biobank research in Europe - Proceedings of the Tiss.EU Projectnull ER -