SWITZERLAND

-Swiss National Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics
www.nek-cne.ch/

The Swiss National Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics was established in 2001. It is an advisory body for the Swiss Government and both chambers of Parliament and is therefore often consulted. To fulfill its legal mandate the Commission provided information for the public on this subject through debates, publications and media conferences. In the future the Commission wishes to continue its efforts to highlight ethical dilemmas, make these issues amenable to public debate, provide guidance, and identify possible solutions.
Prof. Christoph Rehmann-Sutter (President)

Swiss National Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics NEK-CNE
Swiss Federal Office of Public Health
3003 Bern, Switzerland
Telephone: +41 313240236
Fax: +41 313226233
nek-cne@bag.admin.ch


-Swiss Ethics Committee on non-human Gene Technolgoy, ECNH
www.umwelt-schweiz.ch/buwal/eng/fachgebiete/fg_ekah/index.html
www.ekah.ch/

The Swiss Ethics Committee on Non-human Gene Technology (ECNH) advises the Federal Council and the authorities on legislation and enforcement in the field of non-human biotechnology and gene technology.

Swiss Ethics Committee on non-human Gene Technolgoy ECNH
c/o Swiss Agency for the Environment, Forests and Landscape
3003 Bern, Switzerland
Telephone: +41 313238383
Fax: +41 313247978
ekah@buwal.admin.ch

-Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences
www.samw.ch/

The Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMS) was founded in 1943 and today, has two main programmes, “Medicine and Society” and “Medical Science and Practice”. Among other activities, the Academy identifies new ethical questions arising from top biomedical research and from the development of new technologies, and draws up ethical guidelines and procedural instructions. In 1979 the Academy established the Central Ethics Committee which discusses the major ethical problems facing present-day medicine and seeks to anticipate them before subsequently issuing guidelines, recommendations or position papers on specific subjects.

Petersplatz 13
4051 Basel, Switzerland
Email: mailto:mail@samw.ch
Phone: 41.61.269.9030
Fax: 41.61.269.9039

-The Swiss Society of Biomedical Ethics
www.bioethics.ch/
SGBE, Generalsekretariat Corrinna Müri
Berufsschule für Pflege – Neumünster
Neuweg 12, 8125 Zollikerberg
Switzerland

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