Invited Speakers: Adriano Aguzzi (University of Zurich)
Frank Gannon (Secretary General of EMBO), Kari Stefansson (deCODE CEO-Reykjavik), Andrea Ballabio (President ESHG- European Society of Human Genetics), Julio Celis (FEBS -Federation of European Biochemical Societies), Dick Cotton (HUGO-Human Genome Organization), Lefkos T. Middleton (Glaxo-Wellcome)Amedeo Santosuosso (Civil Court Judge, Milan)
Stefano Nespor (Lawyer, editor in chief of La Rivista Giuridica dell’Ambiente, Milan), Bartha Maria Knoppers (President of HUGO Committee for Ethical Legal and Social Issues, Montreal)
Cinzia Caporale (Bioethicist, La Sapienza University, Rome - journalist at Radio Radicale)
Patrizio Mulas (Italian Journalist Association) Pietro Greco (l'Unità, deputy director of the Master in Science Communication - S.I.S.S.A, Trieste) , Margherita Fronte (Zadig Science Service and Tempo Medico), Luciano Lombardi (director ADN-Kronos Medicine & Health Press Agency, Rome), Armando Massarenti (Il Sole 24Ore, Milan), Giovanni de Gaetano (director Mario Negri Sud, Santa Maria Imbaro)
Program:
Monday, May 17 Sestri Levante - language : English and Italian with simultaneous translation
9:00 Property of Genetic Information Arising from Population Studies - Round table discussion on the geneticists’viewpoint
Moderator : Adriano Aguzzi (University of Zurich)
Frank Gannon (Secretary General of EMBO), Kari Stefansson (deCODE CEO-Reykjavik), Andrea Ballabio (President ESHG- European Society of Human Genetics), Julio Celis (FEBS -Federation of European Biochemical Societies), Dick Cotton (HUGO-Human Genome Organization), Lefkos T. Middleton (Glaxo-Wellcome).
14:00 Genetic Information : the Ethical and Legal Framework – Round table discussion
Moderator : Amedeo Santosuosso (Civil Court Judge, Milan)
Stefano Nespor (Lawyer, editor in chief of La Rivista Giuridica dell’Ambiente, Milan), Bartha Maria Knoppers (President of HUGO Committee for Ethical Legal and Social Issues, Montreal)
16:00 Genetics and the Media - Round table discussion Moderator : Cinzia Caporale (Bioethicist, La Sapienza University, Rome - journalist at Radio Radicale)
Adriano Aguzzi (University of Zurich) and Swiss journalists will report on last year referendum in Switzerland, dott. Patrizio Mulas (Italian Journalist Association) Pietro Greco (l'Unità, deputy director of the Master in Science Communication - S.I.S.S.A, Trieste) , Margherita Fronte (Zadig Science Service and Tempo Medico), Luciano Lombardi (director ADN-Kronos Medicine & Health Press Agency, Rome), Armando Massarenti (Il Sole 24Ore, Milan), Giovanni de Gaetano (director Mario Negri Sud, Santa Maria Imbaro).
18:30: Conclusions
Registration :
Partecipation is free of charge
Deadline for Abstracts: 5/10/99
Email for Requests and Registration: eurgef@tin.it