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Building a Database for Life Sciences: The Market and Public Interests
11,000,000 yen [Grant Project]
Sophia University(Japan)
The following activities are scheduled for this year.
- Creation of a database (Year-round):
In addition to continuing with the previous year's activities, the project will collect and index data on new topics such as evidence-based medicine, biobanks, electric care cards, preimplantation diagnosis.
- International Workshop (September 2005 at the Sophia University Seminar House in Tokyo: 40 participants):
An international workshop will be held inviting foreign researchers for the purpose of exchanging views and reporting on the progress made in creating the database.
- Preparation for conducting a questionnaire survey in Japan (Year-round):
Preparations will be made for conducting a questionnaire in Japan on the market and public nature of biomedicine. The questionnaire will be conducted in 2006.
- Overseas interviews (September 2005):
The project will interview several researchers at medical institutions/universities involved in the development of the Conflict of Interest Guidelines for Biomedicine.
- Completion of a model database/trial operation of website (year-round):
The project will ensure that the model database is operating properly and make changes where necessary. Furthermore, the website will be made available for public viewing during a trial period in order to identify specific problems arising from the launch of the website for public use.
(Second year of a 3-year project)
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