Implementation challenges, application trade-offs and opportunities with respect to an enhanced shift toward societal responsibility in research processes are discussed.
His research focuses on engineering ethics, the moral acceptability of technological risks, values and engineering design, moral responsibility in research networks and ethics of new emerging technologies like nanotechnology.
While his primary responsibility is in research, he also has teaching and extension responsibilities.
Heated debates on responsibilities in biomedical research currently focus on the end of the data and information pipeline: They revolve around issues of returning results to participants and patients (1 3, 4).
Further distinctions can be made within this version of translational ethics by considering the involvement of different stakeholders and their responsibilities in the research, implementation and evaluation process.
Furthermore, researchers should be more aware of their social and political roles and responsibilities in communicating research priorities to policy-makers, donors and the media.
In May 2010 the World Health Assembly adopted a resolution (WHA63.21) setting out WHO's roles and responsibilities in health research and endorsing the WHO Strategy on Research for Health [ 1].
It is important to remember, however, that whereas MTAs can play a significant role in organising the legal responsibilities in the research process, they cannot accommodate all the above challenges.
Many of the clinicians here identified as researchers were clinicians first and foremost, but we have classified them as researchers for the purposes of this analysis because of their assumption of clear responsibilities in relevant research studies.
