Dr Eline Bunnik
Eline Bunnik is Assistant Professor at the department of Medical Ethics of Erasmus MC. She is interested in the ethics of predictive medicine and new technologies, including genetics and genomics, epigenetics, prenatal screening, as well as research ethics topics (e.g. incidental findings, informed consent) and organ donation and transplantation. Also, she is conducting research into ethical issues surrounding access to and funding of (expensive) new medical treatments. She teaches and serves on the research ethics review board of Erasmus MC. Eline is involved as a principal investigator, researcher or advisor in various national and international research collaborations, such as the Ethical and Legal Issues of Personalised Medicine (ELSI-PM) Consortium of ZonMw, and has worked on Responsible Innovation (MVI) projects on epigenetics and early access to unapproved drugs.
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Early access to new medicines
Patients who have run out of standard treatment options may get early access to investigational drugs. This project determines the ethical and societal conditions for a responsible design of services to facilitate early access.
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Ethical and juridical implications of epigenomics technologies
A new technology on genome-wide DNA methylation profiling could improve the ability to predict disease progression and treatment outcomes of cancer, but also raises ethical and legal issues regarding, for example, autonomy, unsolicited findings, and the harms and benefits of screening tests.