Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine (CELAB) pursued interdisciplinary goals since its foundation in 2015. Biomedical law, bioethics, science and technology studies are interdisciplinary fields that require expertise from legal studies and other social sciences and humanities. In addition our daily work within CELAB requires also science literacy. Almost in all of our recent projects we explored a new cutting edge field, such as genetic biobanks, nanotechnology, regenerative medicine, stem cell patents etc. CELAB has never been an isolated purely scientific research center we always made efforts to communicate our results to establish good contacts with international organizations, such as UN, UNESCO, Eu, CoE. We participated in shaping legal policies, international and national. What makes CELAB unique is that even though CEU does not have Medical School or Faculty of Life Sciences it has developed good contact with Science and medical Faculties outside of CEU, especially in Europe and in research projects we often work as a partner in law and ethics to natural scientists, or other professionals. In line with its mission to promote academic discourse and research in the field of bioethics CELAB celebrated CEU 20th anniversary with a lecture series on bioethics to which it invited outstanding scholars working in this field: John Harris, Inez de Beaufort, Donna Dickenson, Nikolas Rose and Thomas Lemke. The lecture series was an enormous success, it highly increased the visibility of CELAB both inside CEU but from the external audience too. Moreover it promoted bioethics as a new interdisciplinary field of enquiry, and created new pathways for further collaboration for CELAB. Research Projects
Only during the last four years CELAB has been involved in 9 national and international collaborative research projects( with Acronyms: RemediE, EULOD, NERRI, EUCELLEX, EQUAL, DISASTER Bioethics, Infertility and the Socio-Technical Practice of Assisted Reproductive Technologies, International Academic Network on Bioethics (IANB), Bio-Archaeological Heritage Project). In total CELAB was involved in 15 long-term projects since 2005. In 2013 we started four new projects: NERRI, EUCelLEX and Infertility and the Socio-Technical Practice of Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Disaster Bioethics Project. Judit Sándor
