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The MCG programme has, through two calls for proposals, selected and funded a total of 26 research projects at various Dutch universities. These projects, usually Ph.D. or postdoc projects, covered an impressive range of disciplines − from sociology to philosophy and from ethics to law. In total, around 60 researchers were involved a project funded by MCG. Below is an overview of all MCG projects including a short description of the main questions asked and methodologies used.

Sharing nature and its biodiversity; claims to genetic resources, technology and biotechnological products in a proprietary perspective.
Prof. J.J. Brinkhof (UU)
 
Genetic characteristics and (non) discrimination
Prof. dr J.K.M. Gevers (UvA, AMC)
 
Gene-Time. Genomics and the Construction of Time.
Dr. J.A. Harbers (RUG)
 
Genome-information: access and future control.
Dr. R. Hoedemaekers (RU/UMC Radboud)
 
Genetics and society in the making: a comparative analysis of a clinical genetic- and a population genetic practice with respect to cardiovasculair diseases.
Prof. dr K. Horstman (UM)
 
New Interfaces for the Health Care and Food System. A pragmatist approach Genomics and Nutrigenomics.
Prof. dr M.J.A.A. Korthals (WUR)
 
Opinion development on Genomics. A study among secondary school students and genomics researchers.
Mw. dr S. Severiens (EUR)
 
Public Understanding of Genomics.
Prof. dr E.R. Seydel (UT)
 
Seeing the future first and most clearly. Een experimentele benadering van information acceleration voor (nutri)genomics.
Prof. dr. ir. J.C.M. van Trijp (WUR)
 
Genomic Databases: Common Heritage or Commodity?
Prof. mr. dr D.J.G Visser
 
Nutrigenomics and society in the making: a conceptual empirical analysis of the evolving research practice of an integrated genomics approach towards gut health.
Prof. dr. R. Vos (UM)
Genomics and Human Nature.
Prof. dr H.J. Achterhuis (UT)
 
Ethical aspects of research into genetic factors linked to Alzheimer's disease.
Dr. W.J.M. Dekkers (UMC St Radboud)
 
Personal characteristics in DNA forensics: the right not to know and other choices in legislation.
Dr. B.J. Koops (UvT)
 
A DNA Profile's Capacity for Rights: On the Interference between Science and the Law in Forensic DNA Practice in the Netherlands.
Dr. A.A. M'charek (UvA)
 
Between the clinic and the kitchen cabinet. A study assessing the development of functional foods in relation to genomics.
Dr. J.A.A. Swart (RUG)
 
The Risky Self: Understanding the relationships between self-image, genetic risk information and health related behaviour.
Dr. D.R.M. Timmermans (VU Medisch Centrum)
 
Predictive genetic testing of minors for cardiovascular disease: an ethical evaluation with regard to personal, parental, and professional responsibility.
Dr. G.M.W.R. de Wert (UM)
Education through fiction: the effects of images, icons and ideas on moral reasoning about genomics.
Prof. dr I.D. de Beaufort (Erasmus MC)
 
Expanding neonatal screening: is it socially acceptable and morally justified?
Dr. P.H. Verkerk (TNO)
Towards a 'lingua democratica' for the public debate on genomics.
Prof. dr P.H.J.M. Derkx (UvH)
 
Genetics and insurance: rearranging responsibilities and solidarity.
Prof. dr K. Horstman (UM)
 
Genomics between prescriptive code and social construction: An analysis of the constraints and possibilities for social choices in genomics for developing countries.  Dr. G. Ruivenkamp (WUR)
 
The Socio-genetic Marginalization in Asia Programme (SMAP): A comparative approach to the relationship between genomics, governance, and social identity.
Dr. M.E. Sleeboom (IIAS)
 
User-producer interactions in functional genomics innovations.
Prof. dr. ir. R.E.H.M. Smits (UU)
 
New Representational Spaces. Investigations of interactions between and intersections of Art and Genomics.
Prof. dr. R. Zwijnenberg (UM)