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UMN Professors Susan Wolf, JD, Chair of the Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences, and John Bischof, PhD, Director of the NSF-funded Engineering Research Center for Advanced Technologies for the Preservation of Biological Systems (ATP-Bio), a Consortium Member Center, were interviewed for a … Read More
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine have published the Proceedings of an innovative workshop addressing the need for ethics guidance to support research leaders, especially in the context of larger teams and research networks, This new publication, “On Leading a Lab: Strengthening Scientific Leadership in Responsible Research,” reports on a workshop held Dec. 4–5, 2023. The workshop explored the… Read More
The International Institute for Biosensing (IIB) has joined the Consortium as its 22nd Member Center. Patricia Khashayar, MD, PhD, MBA, serves as Director of IIB, which operates within UMN’s Research Computing. IIB is a global initiative that brings together experts from academia, nonprofits, industry, and government to advance biosensing technology in… Read More
Leading ethics experts and researchers have co-authored a breakthrough paper calling for new governance and legal rules to guide application of emerging technology to preserve organs for transplant. Authors of a recently released publication in the American Journal of Transplantation, “Governing new technologies that stop biological time: Preparing for prolonged biopreservation of human organs in transplantation,” report that prolonged… Read More