International science and bioethics collaborations: critical approaches to new knowledge relations

Lead Research Organisation: University of Cambridge
Department Name: Social Anthropology

Abstract

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Description The ISBC research has produced a unique body of comparative data on the conduct and ethical governance of collaborative research in the biomedical sciences across Asia. Through a series of integrated subprojects on 1) international clinical trials 2) human embryonic stem cell research and 3) bioethics networking key insights have been gained into the operation of (1) biowealth (2) transnational knowledge flows (3) capacity building (4) bioethics and the governance of transnational res
Exploitation Route This project has lead to the establishment of extensive networks and personal and professional relations across Asia. We believe that the trust engendered in these long-term collaborations will enable benefit to accrue through diffusion and osmosis rather than direct impacts of an easily measurable kind. The quality and extent of these relationships has created collaborative environments in which ideas and their application have had, and will continue to have, significant impact potential cons
Sectors Communities and Social Services/Policy
 
Description Biomedical and health experimentation in South Asia
Amount £429,694 (GBP)
Funding ID ES/H033726/1 
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2010 
End 08/2012
 
Description Biomedical and health experimentation in South Asia 
Organisation University of Edinburgh
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Biomedical and Health Experimentation in South Asia: critical perspectives on collaboration, governance and competition? is a research collaboration between the Universities of Edinburgh (UK), Durham (UK), Tufts (US), and Colombo (Sri Lanka), Social Science Baha (Nepal), and the Anusandhan Trust (India). The collaboration explores the relationships between experimental scientific enquiries in medicine and public health, the pharmaceutical industry, and developmental programmes, to assess their impact in South Asia. Using case studies of experimental projects in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka such as research collaborations that connect international researchers with local institutions, personnel and populations, the project will analyse the networks through ethical, socio-anthropological, political and economic frames.
Start Year 2010
 
Description 'Orphan diseases' and research collaborations in global health innovation 
Form Of Engagement Activity Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Has increased investment in bioscientific capacity outside the First World done anything to change the landscape of drug research for neglected diseases? Join Dr. Monica Konrad, social anthropologist and Director of PLACEB-O, and speakers from the biosciences as we explore international collaboration and competition in times of intensified research planning.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2011
URL http://www.placebo.socanth.cam.ac.uk/content/misc/psfleaflet.pdf
 
Description Anthropology in transition : rethinking science policy studies from the bottom up 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Invited presentation at the Centre of Science, Technology and Society, Tsinghua University.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2011
 
Description Aspects of collaborative malaria drug research in national and international settings 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Dr. Monica Konrad, senior researcher at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge gave this introductory talk on aspects of collaborative malaria drug research in national and international settings. Presentation given at the ISBC regional collaborative workshop II (RCWII) : malaria R&D financing, policy innovation and emerging drug resistance in Southeast Asia : perspectives from the local and global'.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
URL http://www.isbc-project.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Online.pdf
 
Description Clinical stem cell research in China : internationalization and its discontents 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Participants in your research or patient groups
Results and Impact Presented at University of Oldenburg, Institute for Social Science Theory

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2011
 
Description Clinical trials in China : challenges from internationalization and modernization 
Form Of Engagement Activity Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Conference Panel at SIGENET China Week, Berlin, Humboldt Unbiversity / Charite, November 2 2011
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2012
 
Description Integrating bioethics and social science methodology : the empirical study of high-profile clinical SC research in China 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Participants in your research or patient groups
Results and Impact Invited lecture: Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Hospital, Center for Bioethics, Beijing, China

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2011
 
Description International science and bioethics collaborations in Asia : end of award colloquium 
Form Of Engagement Activity Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact The colloquium was organised by the ISBC team as the end of project dissemination event. It was attended by researchers and other stakeholders in the fields of STS, medical anthropology, sociology of health and illness, public health, development studies, bioethics, history of science and medicine. Members of the ISBC research team presented an overview of their work and the key themes and issues to have emerged from it. These presentations were followed by a series of complementary papers deli
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2011
 
Description Malaria R&D Financing, Policy Innovation and Emerging Drug Resistance in Southeast Asia: Perspectives from the Local and Global 
Form Of Engagement Activity Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact A joint effort by the University of Cambridge, the UK Economic and Social Research Council, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation Bangkok Office and the National Centre for Genetic Engineering and Bioetechnology and the National Science and Technology Development Agency
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2011
 
Description New forms of knowledge : qualitative research on clinical trials in Sri Lanka 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Presented at inception workshop of biomedical and health experimentation in South Asia
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Rights to research : anthropology, academia and the new institutionalism : panel 
Form Of Engagement Activity Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Panel convened by Monica Konrad, hosted at Newnham College Cambridge with the support of CRASSH
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2011
URL http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/uploads/gallery/events/170/konradpaper.pdf
 
Description Scientist-initiated forms of ethical leadership and governance across countries and cultures 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Presented at SIGENET-health workshop, Beijing Genomics Institute, Shenzhen, China, March 7-11 2011
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Sri Lanka Medical Association 122nd annual scientific sessions pre-congress workshop on ethics of international collaborative research 
Form Of Engagement Activity Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact A one-day regional collaborative workshop for key regional stakeholders. The event provided an opportunity for participants from Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, and Bangladesh to share experiences of bioethics; clinical trials; ethics committees; international collaboration.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2011