Discussion of the problems of modern bioethics at the III All-Russian Congress of Young Scientists (Sirius, November 28–30, 2023)

The III All-Russian Congress of Young Scientists was held in Sirius in the autumn of 2023. The program of the Congress included the section «Scientific search and ethical and legal issues of research activities», which gathered a large number of participants. Interestingly, Vladimir Mikhailovich Filippov, Chairman of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Valery Nikolaevich Falkov, Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Mikhail Albertovich Murashko, Minister of Health of the Russian Federation, Alexander Leonidovich Khokhdov, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the Council on Ethics of Clinical Research of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, took part in the work of the section. and others. It should be noted that academician A.L. Khokhlov in November 2023 He presented the position of the Russian scientific community on bioethics at the 42nd session of the UNESCO General Conference in Paris, thanks to which Russia resumed its membership in the Intergovernmental Committee on Bioethics of UNESCO. The moderator of the section was Maria Vladimirovna Vorontsova, a pediatric endocrinologist, Candidate of Medical Sciences, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Fundamental Medicine of Moscow State University, member of the Academic Council of Moscow State University.

The moderator outlined the problem that the section was devoted to. It can be summarized as follows:

1. All scientific research is governed by law and morality. The law acts unambiguously, and the need for an ethical assessment is always presented, especially in the scientific field, which has not yet received legal support
2. An important issue, therefore, is the question of the ethical examination of scientific research. There are different types of research in modern biomedicine and, of course, modification of ethical examination procedures is necessary.

Here we will focus on the most important issues discussed at the section meeting.