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TISS.EU: Evaluation of Legislation and Related Guidelines on the Procurement, Storage and Transfer of Human Tissues and Cells in the European Union–an Evidence-Based Impact Analysis

Link: 
http://www.ist-world.org/ProjectDetails.aspx
Duration: 
September, 2008 to March, 2011
Main researcher(s) at CEU: 
Judit Sandor
Petra Bard
Funding: 
EU FP7
Unit: 
Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine

The acronym Tiss.EU stands for „Evaluation of Legislation and Related Guidelines on the Procurement, Storage and Transfer of Human Tissues and Cells in the European Union - an Evidence-Based Impact Analysis.” The project, funded by the European Commission as part of the 7th Framework Programme, runs from March 2008 to early 2011 and addresses questions of ethical and legal regulation in relation to research using human tissue. Tiss.EU is made up of four parts, the ethical and legal aspects of which are going to be looked at by the project partners: first, procurement, storage and transfer of tissue and cells for research; second, rights and entitlements to tissue and cells; third, anonymization and pseudonymization to protect privacy rights; and, finally, research using biobanks.