Bioethics Institute Ghent (BIG) at Ghent University is based at the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy and is a subdivision of the Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences. It serves as a meeting point for academics teaching and conducting research on bioethical issues at any Ghent University department. Bioethics comprises ethical issues in biomedicine, health care and biology, and the broader issues of biotechnology.The aims of BIG are to:support scholarly research in bioethics at Ghent Universityeducate and inform students, professionals, the public and public policymakers about bioethical issuesserve as an observatory of developments in bioethics at the regional, national and international levelserve as an interface between researchers, medical practitioners and ethicistsfacilitate interdisciplinary discussion about ethical and regulatory issues related to bioethicscontribute to debates on public policy in bioethics