Responsible NanoCode

In November 2006, the Royal Society, Insight Investment and the Nanotechnology Industries Association (NIA) came together to explore the societal and economic impact of the technical, social and commercial uncertainties related to nanotechnologies. These three partners where later joined by the Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network and these four “founding” partners involved experts from various backgrounds: [...]

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Ideas

“While technology shapes the future, it is people who shape technology, and decide what it can and should be used for”
Kofi Annan
I cited Kofi Annan in my Masters dissertation and somehow was thinking about his words in the last few days. I am pretty sure this is related to some visionary book on biotechnology [...]

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Nanomedicine…hype? Or a real revolution in healthcare?

After Bremen, I will then be heading to London to attend a public debate on nanomedicine, which is organised by the Institute of Nanotechnology. Again, I look forward to attending and I am sure that this debate will be a very good chance to meet new interesting people (the panel of invited speakers obviously promises [...]

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research

As outlined before, my research focuses on ethical and social aspects of nanotechnology and I am mainly interested to look at nano in the frame of nanomedicine and “nanofoods”. These are, in my believe, the issues which raise most controversial discussions as they might contain greatest benefits for society and the individual but also various unknown and [...]

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NanoBio-Raise

Last week I attended the advanced course on Public Communication and Applied Ethics of Nanotechnology in Oxford. Although I have some background in the area of media engagement of nanotechnology, including my Masters dissertation, this course was actually a very good “starting point” for my PhD research! It offered a very diverse view on nano by engaging lecturers [...]

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