Prof. Ellen Moors
Ellen Moors is Professor of Sustainable Innovation. Her research in the field of innovation studies focuses on the dynamics and governance of emerging technologies in science-based sectors, such as agro-food, life sciences and health & ageing. Responsible innovation is an important topic in her work, taking into account societal challenges, values, and welfare issues to ensure more sustainable innovations taking place.
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Medicine personalised at your bedside
This project develops design guidelines to responsibly govern the institutional and ethical aspects of local bedside development and in-hospital production of personalised medicines.
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Tackling Alzheimer's together
The developments taking place in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's are controversial. It is therefore high time that we examined how to achieve responsible innovation in this area.
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Safe medicines, sooner rather than later
When existing medicines no longer offer a cure, people want new medicines as soon as possible. At the same time, they want the medicines to be safe. How should the “conditional approval” of medicines take place in a socially responsible way? There is currently the possibility of rapid, “conditional approval” of medicines for severe and as yet untreatable diseases. However, a medicine’s efficacy and safety must be monitored properly after it is put on the market. This project demonstrated that there is much to be gained by actively involving patients and physicians in the monitoring process. Success factors such as short lines of communication and a shared story about the desirability of the process were identified.