Markets and professional cultures in conflict in stem cell innovation
Markets and professional cultures in conflict in stem cell innovation
主講：周殷華博士
時間：2015年8月24日星期一
19:00-21:00
地點：中山大學南校區逸夫樓201課室
主講簡介：
周殷華，英國愛丁堡大學商學院管理學博士。目前在英國King’s College London，社會科學與公共政策學院政治經濟系的Global Biopolitics Research Centre 擔任研究助理，參與由英國社會與經濟研究理事會（UK ESRC）資助的State Strategies of Governance in Biomedical Innovation: the Impact of China and India. 曾在多個SCI和SSCI英文期刊上發表研究論文，包括Regenerative Medicine和Social Science & Medicine等；并擔任Science, Cell Stem Cell和Social Science & Medicine等期刊的審稿人。研究興趣與領域包括Science & Technology Studies with particular focus on Information Technology and Biomedical Sciences & Technologies 和Sociology of Medicine and Healthcare.
内容簡介：
The global stem cell therapy market is serviced by a supply of treatments generated by two quite different models of stem cell innovation: scientific innovation and medical innovation. The former is characterised by hypothesis driven research, the scientific method and randomised controlled trials. The latter contains elements of these features but is mainly characterised by the clinic based provision of new, scientifically-unproven stem cell based therapies to patients. These two innovation models occasionally contradict with each other in the case of stem cell market, as the stem cell based medical innovation led by the clinicians in the emerging economies is always associated with a negative business-oriented phenomenon – stem cell tourism. This research conducts studies on professional cultures, ethical systems and regulatory frameworks of scientists and clinicians to help understand the nature of innovation models in stem cell science, as well as in the global stem cell market.