Research Ethics and Integrity Committee

On December 28, 2023, CNR President Maria Chiara Carrozza reappointed the Research Ethics and Integrity Committee of the CNR for a four-year term. The Committee’s mission and main institutional goals can be found on the CNR’s institutional website. The Interdepartmental Center for Research Ethics and Integrity (CID Ethics) provides scientific, technical-organizational, managerial and administrative support […]

The elephant in the room. Ethics of neglected diseases and poverty

Diseases, especially infectious ones, have always accompanied human history. They have profoundly altered economic arrangements and affected the social structure and cultural evolution of entire populations. All this is still true for more than a billion people affected by endemic diseases in the tropical areas of the planet. Enormously facilitated by poverty, they are in […]