AITZIBER EMALDI CIRIÓN
aitziber.emaldi@deusto.es
(Bilbao, Spain)
Professional Activity. Professor at the University of Deusto in the following subjects: "Law, Bioethics and Biotechnology", "From Biotechnology to Bioethics" and "Human Resources".
Research Member of the Interuniversity Chair Fundación BBVA - Diputación Foral de Bizkaia, in Law and Human Genome, University of Deusto-University of the Basque Country/EHU, since its beginning in 1994, where she is coordinator of seminars and periodical publications.
| | Education and Professional Training.
Graduate in Law (1993) from the University of Deusto (Spain)
Doctorate in Law (1999) from the University of Deusto (Spain)
To expand her professional training she has taken several positions abroad: University of Brighton, Eastbourg Campus and at the University of Sheffield (United Kingdom).
Research Activity. Her research lines are the following:
- Genetic Counselling and its Legal Implications
- Consent and the Right to Refuse Treatment under Spanish Law
- Criminal Evidence and Genetic Testing
- Legal Liability Derived from the Practice of Predictive Genetic Testing
- Intervention in the Human Genome and Sex Selection
- Legislation on the Human Genome in Spain
- Ethical-Legal Panorama of Individualized Medicine
- Pre-implantation Diagnosis: Present and Future Perspectives
Member of Different National and European Research Projects.
- Legal protection of information regarding the human genome UPV
- Law and applications in health: genetic counselling. EU
- European Information Network. Ethics in Medicine and Biotechnology. (EURETHNET). EU
- Transgenesis, animal cloning and xenotransplant: ethical and legal aspects. UPV
- Reprogenetics. The ethics of men making men (CLEMIT). EU
- Legal implications of using human biological samples and biobanks for scientific research.
Basque government
- EU-RECA Project. "European Project on delimiting the research concept and research
activities". EU
- CHIMRIDS "Chimeras and Hybrids in Comparative European and International Research -
Scientific, Ethical, Philosophical and Legal aspects". EU
- BIOTETHED "Biotechnology Ethics: deepening by research, broadening to future
applications and new EU members, enabling education for young scientists". EU
- European Network of National Schizophrenia. Networks Studying Gene-enviroment
Interactions
Primary Spanish Researcher on European Research Projects.
- Network on European Women’s Right (NEWR)
- Property Regulation in European Science, Ethics and Law Project (PropEur)
Activities as an Expert, Advisor or Evaluator.
Participated in several national and international Conferences, Seminars, and Symposia in Spain, Europe and Latin America, organizer for some of them.
Member of the scientific or editorial committee of Spanish (3) and Latin American (1) scientific Journals, as well as advisor to several Scientific Associations and Institutions (3).
Awards and Distinctions. Received special mention in the 7th Business Initiatives Contest granted by Lan Ekintza, Bilbao.
Received UD-Grupo Santander research award at the Announcement.
Member of the High Performance Team “Faculty of Law and the Human Genome.
Publications. Author, co-author, and editor of several books and articles published in different countries and in five languages (more than 60)
Other Merits.
- Doctoral dissertation committee member
- Doctoral dissertation reader
- Doctoral dissertation director |
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