Vandaag de dag bestaat er geen consensus over welke aandoeningen via de #NIPT opgespoord en meegedeeld moeten worden. Moeten we aandoeningen blijven opsporen waarvan niemand kan voorspellen wat ze juist voor de baby betekenen? tinyurl.com/3bjd2dsd Center for Human Genetics (KU Leuven - UZ Leuven) Zoë Claesen-Bengtson

Congratulations to my colleague Dr. Amicia Phillips for succesfully defending her PhD research! 🤩🥳 Pascal Borry ine van hoyweghen A/Prof Danya Vears Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law - KU Leuven

📢VACANCY ALERT📢 #PHD position focusing on stakeholder perspectives on #gene #therapy in #cardiomyopathy in the team of Pascal Borry You can apply for this job no later than July 27, 2023 via kuleuven.be/personeel/jobs… @dphpckuleuven #phdchat

New publication 📣 Rodante van der Waal & I have a new book chapter on #ObstetricViolence in this book by Prof Parveen Ali & Dr Kayli Rogers #GenderBasedViolence 💜 It has chapters on different forms of GBV so this comes with a huge trigger warning. 💚 link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Interested in PGT? Belgian PGT consortium has developed a national standardized workflow on PGT practice, from patient intake to reporting. Special attention is given to mosaicism management. ESHRE Poster P-718

📢PROPHET EU-PROJECT launched an online survey to map the barriers, challenges, and enablers for the adoption of #personalised #preventive approaches in Health systems in #Europe. ➡️You can participate in the survey here: survey-insa.min-saude.pt/redcap/surveys…

📖NEW BLOG!📖 Following recent news that scientists have successfully created ‘#embryo models’ using single living #StemCells, our Chair, Prof. Dave Archard, explores the debates around #ethical limits to both #scientific & embryo #research. 🔗bit.ly/NB_blog_stembr…

We're thrilled to announce that we'll be hosting an interdisciplinary symposium on 2nd December at Thackray Museum of Medicine & our inbox is now OPEN for paper/panel proposals! Deadline 1st September. DM us with any questions! Details below👇 docs.google.com/document/d/1Mn…

Join us at the first symposium by WOMAHN - Women's marginalized health network. Held at Tilburg Uni, NL, 17-18 Jan 2024! CfA at bit.ly/WOMAHN

📣 Publication alert! Zoë Claesen, Pascal Borry and co-authors dive into the fascinating debate about the child's right to an open future and its impact on setting the scope of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT). Check it out here: ow.ly/vCma50PfOSr #Bioethics #NIPT

Taking Sport Ethics and Integrity to the next level… iCERIS is pleased to announce 17 new PhD scholarships 2024-7 Details below: kuleuven.be/iceris/daisi FIFA Media IOC MEDIA WADA UEFA UN Office on Drugs & Crime Biathlon Integrity Unit Athletics Integrity Unit 🎓MA in Sports Ethics and Integrity MaisiAlumni

My European Journal of Human Genetics commentary piece on #genomic testing for #RareDisease. Applying a #behaviouralscience lens, I've focused on what we know, where the gaps are, and how we can better ensure genomic advances are translated into patient & public benefits: nature.com/articles/s4143…

How long have I been researching and shouting about IVF add-ons? Decades. I worked with @hfea on their traffic light system. I worked with ESHRE on recommendations which are coming out soon. Does anyone take note? No. Still carries on. dailymail.co.uk/health/article…

VOTE Karuna for NEW SCIENTIST Science talent 2023! An award for greatest science talent for NL and Flanders. Great opportunity for the visibility of implementation research of noninvasive prenatal screening. niptconsortium.nl newscientist.nl/polls/new-scie…

Have a look at my new paper in European Journal of Human Genetics on ambivalence in advanced genetic healthcare, co-authored by Danya Glabau Pascal Borry ine van hoyweghen, Hilde Van Esch & Martina Cornel 👇 nature.com/articles/s4143… Sociale Wetenschappen - Social Sciences KU Leuven Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law - KU Leuven Life Sciences & Society Lab KU Leuven Center for Human Genetics (KU Leuven - UZ Leuven) Humane Genetica Amsterdam UMC

My new article with Seppe Segers is out now! It’s short and fun (at least I think so): link.springer.com/article/10.100…

New paper w @horn_ruth_ Adeline Perrot + colleagues explores perceptions & difficulties of women in England & France who took non-invasive #prenatal #testing (NIPT) as a 2nd-tier test & finds preference for it to be offered as first-line screening option. ethox.ox.ac.uk/news/womens-pr…

New commentary out J. of Medical Ethics where we highlight the need of stimulating professional collective responsibility from the outset in mainstreaming #genomics. Result of a great collective effort with @mariasiermann Zoë Claesen-Bengtson Amicia Phillips Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law - KU Leuven shorturl.at/qLVGY

New Vacancy at the CBMER! We are hiring a PhD researcher on Citizens and Technology Ethics 📱 ✅ Supervisors are Chris Gastmans and Yvonne Denier. For detailed information about the vacancy, check our website: kuleuven.be/personeel/jobs… Application deadline 👉 10 July 2024