The aim of the program is to initiate and coordinate research projects in biomedical ethics through the establishment and use of multi-disciplinary networks of scholars at Uppsala University in close collaboration with scholars at other universities in Sweden and abroad.
Concerted actions involve also industry and public authorities.
The research program Ethics in Biomedicine was established by the Vice-chancellor of Uppsala University in August 1998. The Vice-chancellor has appointed Associate Professor Mats G. Hansson as Program Director of the program and Associate Professor Elisabeth Rynning as Deputy Director. The research program Ethics in Biomedicine has been given its own account number at Uppsala University and is administratively associated with the Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences at Uppsala University. Each faculty has appointed a representative to the reference group.