Damos difusión a la información recibida desde la Fundación Crimson.
 
Primer curso internacional de Neuroética.

Donde prestigiosos investigadores y neuroeticistas de Argentina, Suecia y Francia analizaran los aspectos legales, éticos y sociales de las investigaciones en neurociencias.
El curso está dirigido a profesionales de todo el mundo y contara con traducción simultánea Español – Inglés.
La neuroética es un tema apasionante que tiene el potencial de cambiar drásticamente la sociedad en que vivimos en el mediano plazo.  Entre los profesores del curso estará el Dr. Jean Pierre Changeux, prestigioso neurocientífico francés considerado uno de los padres de la neuroética a nivel mundial. Changeux y la Directora del curso, la Dra. Kathinka Evers, también presentaran sus nuevos libros sobre la temática.
Cualquier consulta, dirigirse a:  neuro10@fundacioncrimson.org

Miguel Omar Velardez, Ph.D.
Director
Program for the Advancement of Biomedical Sciences
Education in Latin America (PABSELA)
Executive Director
Fundación Crimson
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Expanding the Frontiers of Neuroethics 2010

A new International Neuroethics Course held in collaboration with Uppsala University, Sweden

Topics

<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->Applied Neuroethics - Ethical questions that arise from neuroscientific and neurotechnological advances

<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->Fundamental Neuroethics - How knowledge of the brain’s functional architecture can deepen our understanding of human thought

<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->Clinical Perspectives - To what extent a patient with a neuro-degenerative disorder suffers from reduced capacity for decision making

<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->Cultural Relativism in Neuroethics - How different countries prioritize different aspects of neuroscience and brain research

Dates and Location

November 22-26, 2010 in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Languages

English – Spanish. Simultaneous translation

Director

Kathinka Evers, Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics, Uppsala University, Sweden

Faculty

Internationally recognized investigators and philosophers, including keynote speaker Jean-Pierre Changeux, world famous French neuroscientist, Chair of the Bioethics Committee at Institut Pasteur, France

For more information and application: http://www.fundacioncrimson.org/program.php?p=24

Download brochure here http://fundacioncrimson.org/Expanding_Neuroethics_Brochure.pdf

PABSELA Stem Cell Research Training 2010

Lab Activities

<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->Generation of iPS cells and their differentiation to motor neurons (Dimos et al., Science, 2008 Aug 29;321(5893):1218-21)

<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->Mining the Cancer Transcriptome in the CNS (Carro et al., Nature, 2010 Jan 21;463(7279):318-25)

Dates and Location

October 23-31, 2010 in Cordoba, Argentina

Director

Beatriz Caputto, Facultad de Ciencias Quimicas, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba

Faculty

Professors from Harvard University and other internationally-recognized institutions will give both theoretical and laboratory training to a group of select Latin American students

For more information and application: http://www.fundacioncrimson.org/program.php?p=25

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