“Combining conceptual and technological resources for innovation: the role of systems biology in interdisciplinary translational research” (WP5)
Investigator: Dr. Imme Petersen, M.A.

WP5 investigates the relevance of systems biology in interdisciplinary translational research on cancer from a perspective of Actor Network Theory (see Akrich/Callon/Latour 2006, Latour 1989, Latour 2006, Hedgecoe/Martin 2003, Smart/Martin 2006). The selected case is the multidisciplinary EU-project “Advancing clinico-genomic clinical trials” (http://www.eu-acgt.org/). It assembled actors from genomics, medicine, law, ethics and informatics to develop an information technology platform that is supposed to support postgenomic clinical trials in cancer. In order to achieve this goal, a multiplicity of methods, practices, technologies and concepts are developed and applied, creating a techno-scientific environment for the definition and treatment of cancer. Data from this analysis will be used to explore a range of heterogeneous processes which mutually shape the application of systems biology and its ongoing stabilization.

Contact:
Dr. Imme Petersen
Universität Hamburg FSP BIOGUM
FG Medizin und Neurowissenschaften, Lottestr. 55
D - 22529 Hamburg
Tel: +49 (40) 74 10-5 63 12
Fax: +49 (40) 74 10-5 63 15
E-mail: imme.petersen[at]uni-hamburg.de
Web: http://www.uni-hamburg.de/fachbereiche-einrichtungen/fg_ta_med/petersen_e.html