2013 Ethics news

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October

• Reconnect 2013: Big Data – The Advance of Data-Driven Discovery, October 16-18, 2013, Ottawa, ON
• Till & McCulloch Meetings, October 22-25, 2013, Banff, AB

September

• The Panel on Research Ethics announces the release of proposed revisions to the 2nd edition of the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans (TCPS 2) for public comment. Written comments on the proposed revisions to TCPS 2 will be accepted until January 15, 2014. The set of revisions is now available online.

June

• Call for applications: 2014-2015 Graduate Fellowships in Health Law, Ethics and Policy, Application deadline: March 15, 2014
• Overcoming Obstacles to Research with Pregnant Women, webinar presented by Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R), June 19, 2013
• Somatic Cell Donation for Stem Cell Research: Current Challenges -- Future Directions, presented by the Ethics and Public Policy Committee of the International Society for Stem Cell Research, June 12, 2013, Boston, MA, USA

May

• The University of Otago, New Zealand, is hosting a new open access ethics review resource, The Ethics Application Repository
• Canadian Bioethics Society Annual Conference, May 29-June 1, 2013, Banff, AB
• 3rd World Conference on Research Integrity, May 5-8, 2013, Montreal, QC

April

• Canadian Association of Research Ethics Boards National Conference and Annual General Meeting, April 25-27, 2013, Calgary, AB
• Understanding stem cell controversies, April 23-25, 2013, Montreal, QC
• Café Scientifique: “Genetic Testing and You!”
  Thursday, April 18, 2013, 7:00 p.m.
  The Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Salle Duluth
  900 Rene Levesque Blvd W Montreal, QC H3B 4A5
• Fellowship Program in Ethics, Harvard Medical School, Application deadline: April 15, 2013
• Medical Genetics, Law and Ethics, April 5, 2013, Vancouver, BC

March

• Café Scientifique: “The Future of Down Syndrome Research”
  Hosted by Dalhousie University in collaboration with CIHR
  March 21, 2013
  Just Us! Café
  5896 Spring Garden Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia

January

• Café Scientifique: “Does your health depend on your access to civil justice?”
  Hosted by University of Toronto in collaboration with CIHR
  Thursday, January 31, 2013
  The Gladstone Hotel
  1214 Queen St. W., Toronto, ON