Lluís Montoliu asserts that scientific ethics allows the purpose of research to be justified



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## Lluís Montoliu asserts that scientific ethics allows the purpose of research to be justified

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The researcher from the National Centre for Biotechnology took part in the 1st Biotechnology Conference organised by the Torre de la Sal Institute of Aquaculture and the Universitat Jaume I.

Researcher Lluís Montoliu from the National Centre for Biotechnology of the Spanish National Research Council (CNB-CSIC) and the Networked Biomedical Research Centre for Rare Diseases of the Carlos III Health Institute has stated that research ethics allows us to question the purpose of scientific studies and ensure that they comply with established standards, and that it also protects research staff from malpractice because it establishes certain limitations.

Montoliu gave the lecture "Ethical implications of research in the field of biotechnology" during the 1st Biotechnology Conference of the Torre de la Sal Institute of Aquaculture and the Universitat Jaume I, which brought together more than 70 researchers from these two centres to promote new synergies for joint research and a hundred students of the Degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

In his opinion, of the four principles of bioethics (do no harm, do good, informed consent and justice), the principle of informed consent is one of the most important because it allows people to decide how and to what extent they will participate in a scientific study, which, together with the precepts of data protection regulations, prevents, for example, unauthorised information being obtained by cross-referencing different databases.

During the conference, he recommended reading the Declaration of Helsinki (1967), and emphasised that article 36 of the Declaration obliges scientific personnel to publish both positive and negative results. Montoliu defended animal experimentation "because it is indispensable for human beings", but emphasised that it is strictly regulated and that there has to be total transparency with regard to how it is carried out. He finished by inviting everyone to reflect on genomic experimentation.

The presentation of the conference was given by the vice-rector for Research at the UJI, Jesús Lancis, and the director of IATS-CSIC, Ariadna Sitjà, accompanied by the IATS-CSIC researcher Ana Gómez, and the UJI researcher Aurelio Gómez Cadenas, promoters of this initiative to bring together researchers from the two centres in a single conference.

On Friday 21st February at 6.30 pm, Lluís Montoliu will present his book *[No todo vale. ¿Qué hace un científico hablando de ética?](https://www.uji.es/investigacio/base/cultura-cientifica/pc4/base/biotech/presentacio.pdf)* at the Argot bookshop in Castelló de la Plana with the participation of Jesús Lancis, vice-rector for Research; Laura Bernal, technician in charge of the Ethics Committee; and Ramón Feenstra, professor of Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and Sociology at the Universitat Jaume I.

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