ERC STARTING GRANT PROJECT

Walls of Secrecy and Silence in the Human Organ Trade: Facilitating, Concealing and Laundering Illegal Transplants

We are proud to present our forthcoming project, funded by a European Research Council Starting Grant. This project will commence in 2025 and will run for a period of 5 years, in collaboration with the Department of Law, Society and Crime of Erasmus University Rotterdam.

This research aims to understand how, where and why medical/legal businesses facilitate, conceal and launder illegal transplants and assesses the implications for anti-organ trade responses.

The aims are addressed through online research, ethnographic fieldwork and studies of the most recently prosecuted cases across the globe. The project is guided by a theoretical framework that combines notions from criminology, transplant medicine and medical ethics.

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