Kolloquium Research with dual use potential: Current status – regulatory framework – future developments with Prof. Dr. Dr. Tade M. Spranger

The so-called turning point has also arrived in science: while research with (also) military applications was considered critical or worthy of criticism for years, the European Commission's white paper of January 2024 at the latest has raised general awareness that research with dual-use potential is no exception and is increasingly attracting political interest. The lecture presents the current status of the considerations, provides an overview of the relevant regulatory framework and attempts to forecast further developments.

PROF. DR. DR. TADE M. SPRANGER

Born 1971; 1995 1st state examination in law; 1997 doctorate (Dr. iur.); 1998 2nd state examination in law; 2002 doctorate (Dr. rer. pol.). 2002 visiting professor at the Universidade de São Paulo; since 2003 member of the Ethics Committee of the Medical Faculty of the University ofBonn; 2004 - 2005 visiting professor at the University of Technology Sydney; 2006 - 2015 head of an interdisciplinary BMBF research group; 2008 habilitation at the Faculty of Law of the University of Bonn with the thesis "Recht und Bioethik" (Law and Bioethics) and teaching authorization for the subjects of public law, European law, international business law and biotechnology law; since 2009 editor of the publication series "Recht der Lebenswissenschaften / Life Sciences and Law"; 2010 - 2017 member of the Permanent Senate Commission on Genetic Research of the DFG; since 2014 supernumerary professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Bonn; 2014 - 2020 member of the Ethics Advisory Board of the Human Brain Project; since 2015 co-director of the Centre for the Law of Life Sciences at the University of Bonn; since 2015 lecturer in the LL.M. Medical Law course at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf; lawyer at RITTERSHAUS Rechtsanwälte in Mannheim since 2016. More than 500 publications on bio-, European, constitutional and administrative law.

YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO THIS LECTURE BY:

Prof. Dr. Bert Heinrichs (INM-7) on behalf of the Scientific and Technical Council and the Committee for Ethics in Research of Forschungszentrum Jülich