MSPH Events

12.30pm – 1.30pm, Wed 10th Jun 2009
Seminar Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton

Associate Professor Berge Solberg, Department of Health Sciences, Norwegian University of Science & Technology

Recent advances in genetic sequencing technology, confront us with the challenge of incidental findings in medical research in a radical new way. Whole genome analysis on biomaterial from large population based biobanks, will for instance detect highly penetrant mutations with potential clinical implications for individuals. Should researchers disclose incidental findings to participants? The answer to that question rests not only on the nature of the incidental finding, but on the question of what researchers owe research participants.

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