Papa, Nicole, and the guideline industry

Influence of industry on renal guideline development.

T here is ongoing controversy concerning the influence of the pharmaceutical industry on physicians, research publications, medical societies, and disease advocacy groups (1–7). Nowhere is the potential influence of industry more concerning than in development of clinical practice guidelines (8), which are designed to improve and standardize patient care yet also have enormous economic implicat...

Expansion and Validation of the PAPA Framework

In recent years, ethics has drawn increased interest from information technology and computer science practitioners as well as from academicians. This article investigates the issues outlined in the PAPA framework in today’s environment and explores the possibility that new issues have emerged. Findings indicate that the ethicality of property misuse may be viewed differently based on the level...

Nicole Brass , Dirk Heckel

With the rapid advances in tumor genetics, an increasing number of amplifications have been identified in various human neoplasms (4). Examples of oncogenes amplified in tumors include N-myc and HER-2/neu, which have been proposed as prognostic markers in neuroblastoma and breast cancer, respectively (5,7). To date, most of the information on the amplification of genes has been gathered from co...

Laudatio Nicole Le Douarin

On behalf of the ISDB it is my privilege and honour to introduce to you the Ross G. Harrison prize winner, Nicole Le Douarin. It is hard fo me to imagine a more deserving recipient. The prize is named after Ross Harrison, a founding father of tissue culture and of hetero-specific grafting. In his experiments, Ross Harrison described a number of chimerae in which heads of dark Rana silvatica lav...

Environmental Management Guideline for the Palm Oil Industry