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Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences SAMS
New mandate for the National Coordination Platform Clinical Research
The Coordination Platform Clinical Research (CPCR) will continue its efforts to strengthen the institutional cooperation between academic actors. The State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) has given the SAMS a new mandate to pursue the platform’s work until 2028. As host of the CPCR, the SAMS has decided to invest additional resources of its own to support the ambitious program of the platform more effectively.
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Organ donation after assisted suicide: Legal opinion for informed debate
Can organ donation take place in a Swiss hospital following assisted suicide? Both practices are legally permitted, widely accepted in society, and are already carried out in Switzerland. However, their combination raises new ethical and legal questions. In 2025, the Central Ethics Committee (CEC) of the SAMS published a position statement on the ethical aspects of this issue. Today, the SAMS is publishing a commissioned legal opinion on the subject. Both documents are available on our website.
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Animal experimentation: ECAE Statement on 3R research
The Ethics Committee for Animal Experimentation (ECAE) has issued a statement on parliamentary initiative 21.426 by Katja Christ, «More resources and incentives for 3R research to accelerate the development of alternatives to animal testing».