The Faculty of Law, British University in Egypt, organized a conference about biomedicine and bioethics on 3 November 2019, in response to the increasing attention of the international legal community to the scheme of natural sciences. The conference was organized in collaboration between the Centre for Law and Emerging Technologies (CLETs), Faculty of Law at the British University in Egypt and the Réseau Universitaire International de Bioéthique. It was held on the sidelines of the annual workshop organized by the “Réseau Universitaire International de Bioéthique” (International University-Based Network for Bioethics), which is an international network composed of twenty universities from different legal backgrounds. The Network is concerned with the promotion of interdisciplinary research on biomedicine and bioethics.  

The topics introduced during the conference focused on: the myth of human species improvement, the position of the Egyptian Higher Committee for Organ Transfer and Transplantation, the international doctrines on biomedicine and bioethics, the position of islamic jurisprudence towards the challenges of biomedicine [Fiqh], the position of the Egyptian Medical Syndicate, and draft law regulating medical and clinical research. RPD participated in the conference by introducing a session on “WHO’s Work in Support of Ethics and Bioethics in the Eastern Mediterranean Region”. Participants included high level political and scientific figures from Egypt and France.