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Panel 8 – medicine | clinical
2.5 Medical Ethics
According to the description the Medical ethics group is planning to do
research in three areas:
1) Bio-ethics. The ethical implications of stem cell research.
2) Ethical problems in relation to nano-medicine.
3) Medical decision making.
These topics are very interesting and certainly relevant. They are in line
with the main topics of research in the Faculty. At the same time, however,
when looking at the publications we cannot identify publications
related to the topics 1 and 2. All publications seem to be related to topic
nr. 3. Therefore these lines of research still have to be developed.
The staff of the department is adequate, with a limited number of PhD
students, which however is in line with the topic of the department.
In this department you will never have a large number of PhD’s. The
funding of the department is limited. This, however, is not unusual for a
department of medical ethics. The number of publications is good. They
are, however, not all in high impact journals.
Overall: the Department of Medical Ethics is productive and is aiming
to explore new lines of research. From these new lines no publications are
available.
Overall rating: Very good.
2.6 Nephrology
This unit has 1 professor and two research fellows. The publication record
of this unit is not impressive, although described as being “the highest
ranking nephrology unit in Sweden”. Article 5 by Anna-Leena Berg
published in Science seem to be an error as the article appears unrelated
to nephrology and there is no author with this first name and just one
male with the surname Berg). None of the principal investigators has an
impressive publication record. There appears to be collaboration with
vasculitis investigators in Sweden and abroad, and with microalbuminuria
investigators at the Cleveland Clinic.
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