Martin Jungkunz

National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg
  • National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg
    Researcher
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Alumnus, 2018
Heidelberg, BW, Germany
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    Secondary use of clinical data in research or learning activities (SeConts) has the potential to improve patient care and biomedical knowledge. Given this potential, the ethical question arises whether physicians have a professional duty to support SeConts. To investigate this question, we analyze prominent international declarations on physicians’ professional ethics to determine whether they include duties that can be considered as good reasons for a physicians’ professional duty to support Se…Read more
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    Background The screening of newborns for severe congenital diseases has been a success story since the 1960s. With the upsurge of genomic sequencing technologies, the question arises: Should _genomic_ Newborn Screening (gNBS) be introduced as general public health measure for all newborns? From an ethical perspective, this leads to the question: What are the relevant moral criteria and points to consider when analyzing and evaluating gNBS as a standard public health procedure in neonatal care? M…Read more
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    Zusammenfassung Hintergrund Die systematische Untersuchung Neugeborener auf schwere angeborene Erkrankungen begann bereits in den 1960er Jahren und ist seitdem in Form eines allgemeinen Neugeborenen Screenings eine Erfolgsgeschichte. Mit dem stetigen Fortschritt der Technologien zur Genomsequenzierung (Next Generation Sequencing) und ersten breiten Pilotstudien in verschiedenen Ländern wird in den letzten Jahren zunehmend die Frage diskutiert, ob genomisches Neugeborenen-Screening (gNBS) als Sta…Read more
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    Research question The secondary research use of treatment data has the potential to expand medical knowledge and improve patient care. Hospitals play an important role in systematic secondary research use: they generate large amounts of treatment data and are supposed to establish the necessary structures for their use in research. This raises the ethical question: do hospitals have a moral duty to support secondary research use of treatment data by establishing and operating the necessary resou…Read more
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    Do hospitals have a duty to support the secondary research use of treatment data?
    with Eva C. Winkler and Christoph Schickhardt
    Ethik in der Medizin 36 (4): 507-530. 2024.
    Research question The secondary research use of treatment data has the potential to expand medical knowledge and improve patient care. Hospitals play an important role in systematic secondary research use: they generate large amounts of treatment data and are supposed to establish the necessary structures for their use in research. This raises the ethical question: do hospitals have a moral duty to support secondary research use of treatment data by establishing and operating the necessary resou…Read more
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    Patient data for commercial companies? An ethical framework for sharing patients’ data with for-profit companies for research
    with Eva C. Winkler, Adrian Thorogood, Vincent Lotz, and Christoph Schickhardt
    Journal of Medical Ethics 51 (5): 2022-108781. 2025.
    Background Research using data from medical care promises to advance medical science and improve healthcare. Academia is not the only sector that expects such research to be of great benefit. The research-based health industry is also interested in so-called ‘real-world’ health data to develop new drugs, medical technologies or data-based health applications. While access to medical data is handled very differently in different countries, and some empirical data suggest people are uncomfortable …Read more
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    Die sekundäre Forschungsnutzung von Behandlungsdaten hat großes Potenzial, biomedizinisches Wissen zu erweitern und die Patientenversorgung zu verbessern. Gleichzeitig sind für eine bessere Ausschöpfung dieses Potenzials diverse Herausforderungen zu bewältigen. Dies gilt insbesondere in Deutschland, wo im Vergleich zu anderen Ländern, wie z.B. Dänemark oder Finnland, die sekundäre Forschungsnutzung von Behandlungsdaten unterentwickelt ist. Die Intensivierung der Nutzung der Daten aus Diagnose un…Read more
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    Do patients have a moral duty to provide their clinical data for research? A critical examination of possible reasons
    with Anja Köngeter, Katja Mehlis, Markus Spitz, Eva C. Winkler, and Christoph Schickhardt
    Ethik in der Medizin 34 (2): 195-220. 2022.
    Research question The secondary use of clinical data for research and learning activities has the potential to significantly improve medical knowledge and clinical care. To realize this potential, an ethical and legal basis for data use is needed, preferably in the form of patient consent. This raises the question: Do patients have a moral duty to provide their clinical data for research and learning activities? Methods On the basis of an ethical approach that we call “caring liberalism,” we eva…Read more