Non-beneficial pediatric research: individual and social interests

Non-beneficial pediatric research: individual and social interests

Biomedical research involving human subjects is an arena of conflicts of interests. One of the most important conflicts is between interests of participants and interests of future patients. Legal regulations and ethical guidelines are instruments designed to help find a fair balance between risks and burdens taken by research subjects and development of knowledge and new treatment. There is an...

Non-beneficial pediatric research and the best interests standard: a legal and ethical reconciliation.

Research Interests Research Projects

2005–present HiStar: a secure operating system [2]. Led the HiStar project on designing and developing a new operating system that allows applications to minimize the amount of trusted code. HiStar allows applications to specify precise data security policies by specifying how different information can flow through the system. As a result, small amounts of trusted code can reason about the secu...

Research Interests Research Experience

2007– W5, or A World Wide Web Without Walls. Conceived of and now prototyping W5, a new architecture for the web. The Facebooks and OpenSocials of the world represent new architectures for application development. W5 argues that they insufficiently protect users and unnecessarily encumber application developers. W5 proposes an alternative architecture, under which users retain control of their ...

Non-financial conflicts of interests in psychiatric research and practice.

Not all conflicts of interests affecting psychiatry are financial in nature. Our field is vulnerable to some varieties of nonfinancial conflicts of interests. Examples include the possible conflict between a researcher's allegiance to a school of thought and the integrity of psychotherapy research, or between a psychiatrist's political commitment and patients' welfare.