Data sharing - Lausanne Open Data Meetup
What
BSNL / ISCB-RCG Switzerland presents,
Hackuarium presents,
Lausanne Open Data Meetup Special Edition
(This event will be in English)
When
- Thursday 5th November 2015, 7pm
- Practical information: see Open Hackuarium
- Please register here for this event.
Organisers
- Leonor Rib
- Jonathan Sobel
Topics
Biomedical data, medical data transition, ethics and security
Speakers
We are honored to discuss these topics with four important actors in the field that confirmed their participation:
- Jacques Beckmann (Head of Clinical Bioinformatics, SIB)
- Christine Currat (Executive director of the Swiss biobanking platform)
- Manolis Dermitzakis (Professor of Genetics at the Department of Genetic Medicine, UNIGE)
- Jeanne-Pascale Simon (Lawyer at the Unit of Legal Affairs, CHUV)
Target audience
Students, Politicians, Doctors, Data Scientists, Citizens.
Questions to ask/have answers for
During the round table we will go through the following questions:
- What can personalized medicine offer?
- What ethics problematic are at stake with personal medical data and how can the law protect patients?
- What is the current state of the infrastructure for these data and the existing tools for researchers?
- How to manage these data and ensure confidentiality, but to allow access to researchers?
- How much investment is needed today to support this data tsunami?
- What is the need in medical data literacy for its potential users?
- How many trained people do we need in the area?
- Can citizens take part in this revolution by doing citizen science/biohacking/DIYbio?