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Gemma Prize
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Paul Schotsmans Prize 2025 goes to Gemma García Calderó

👏 Congratulations to our PhD student Gemma García Calderó, who was awarded the Paul Schotsmans Prize 2025 for her abstract on “The Neglected Side of Ethical Balancing: Core Social Needs in Pandemic Public Health Deliberation” 👏

Webinar Wasson
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Webinar - Clinical Ethics on Thursday, November 6th 2025

"The Not So Obvious Benefits of Ethics Committees: What Is Lost Without Them". Hear Prof. Katherine Wasson from Loyola University Chicago, USA, talk about the essential contributions of clinical ethics committees to clinical practice and…

Contemporary Debates Flyer
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New lecture series "Contemporary Debates in Bioethics: Ethics of Geriatric Care" starting soon!

This semester's "Contemporary Debates" are dedicated entirely to the ethics of geriatric care. Various guest speakers will shed light on the topic from different professional perspectives. Don't miss this exciting series of lectures…

Bioxph Group
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Institute for Biomedical Ethics Hosts 2025 Experimental Philosophical Bioethics (BioXPhi) Summit

Read about the highlights of the 2025 Experimental Philosophical Bioethics (BioXPhi) Summit, proudly hosted by the Institute for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Basel.

Fostering Humanism in Surgery
/ News, Research

Fostering Humanism in Surgery

This new book about the importance of humanism in surgical education and practice was co-edited by IBMB senior researcher Fabrice Jotterand.

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New article by PD Dr. Stuart McLennan published in "The Lancet Digital Health"

Weighing the benefits and risks of collecting race and ethnicity data in clinical settings for medical artificial intelligence

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Video "Agequake in Prison"

Find out more about the challenges of an ageing prison population in our latest video, which was created as part of the “Aging in Prison” research project.

/ News, Research

New Article by Dr. Stuart McLennan in "Bioethics"

Slow Codes are symptomatic of ethically and legally inappropriate CPR policies

/ Research, Studies

New article by Dr. Lester Geneviève in The American Journal of Bioethics

ARIE: A Health Equity Framework for Public Health Interventions Informed by Critical Race Theory and Critical Gerontology

/ Doctorate/PhD

PhD Opportunity in Bioethics - BREETH

The PhD position is part of an exciting research project on the ethical and social implications of new plant breeding technologies funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation as part of the National Research Program NRP84.

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Institute for Biomedical Ethics
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Switzerland

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