Bianca Buechner, Ph.D.
Dr. Bianca Buechner is a German attorney and admitted to the bar in Germany. She gained her Ph.D. in Law. Her research for her dissertation was focused on the research with human biological material and the legal and ethical use in research and biobanking in Germany. Dr. Buechner also worked on various types of clinical trial agreements in the legal department of a pharmaceutical company in Germany as well as in the United States.
Currently, Dr. Buechner is a LL.M Candidate in the Health Law, Policy and Bioethics at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law Indianapolis. Besides her studies Dr. Buechner works as a Research Assistant at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law Indianapolis, Hall Center for Law and Health, and the Indiana University Center for Bioethics. She is jointly mentored by Dr. Eric Meslin, the Director of the Center for Bioethics and Professor Eleanor D. Kinney, Co-director of the Hall Center for Law and Health, Emeritus. This unique pairing of an ethicist and a lawyer provides strong scientific mentorship as well as mentorship in interdisciplinary science to develop and improve the ethical and legal concepts of research with human biological material. Her research project focuses on transnational/cross-border research with human tissue and cells and the exchange of research data between the United States and Germany as a reference state of the European Union.
Publications
The End of Stem Cell Research in Europe?, The European Court of Justice Decision, Case C-34/10, October 18, 2011, http://predicter.blogspot.com/ (2011)
Delegation of Alternative Practitioners – Liability and Issues Concerning Financial Statements (translation), Report Naturheilkunde 2011, p. 7-11 (Ger.)
Koerpersubstanzen als Forschungsmaterialien – Aufklaerung und Einwilligung bei der Ent-nahme und Verwendung von Koerpersubstanzen (Legal Issues concerning the Research with Human Biological Material - translation), Dissertation 2010 (Ger.)
Das Kontokorrent als Schluessel der “Aufrechnung” im Vertragsarztverhaeltnis, (The Role of Current Accounts for Panel Doctors - translation), SGb 2010, p. 513 – 516 (Ger.)
Was ist eine Befruchtung nach dem Tod? (What is an Insemination Post Mortem? -translation), Legal Tribune Online, (2010) (Ger.)
Die Patientenverfuegung oder Freiheit ist Selbstbestimmung und Selbstbestimmung ist Freiheit (The Living Will or Freedom is Self-determination and Self-determination is Freedom - translation), together with Vanessa Unfried, PatR 2007, p. 133 – 137 (Ger.)
