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In a new publication in PLOS Digital Health, experts in bioethics and law call for immediate standardization of methods for collection of race and ethnicity data, and for developers to warranty race and ethnicity data quality in medical AI systems. The research synthesizes concerns about why… Read more

On May 19, Regents Professor Susan M. Wolf delivered the keynote address at the 51st convocation of Stony Brook University’s Renaissance School of Medicine in New York. Addressing the graduating medical school class, she cautioned that they were entering the profession of medicine at a challenging… Read more

Consortium Co-Chair Francis Shen, JD, PhD, co-organized a panel on Deploying Portable & Accessible MRI in New Communities: Strategies for Anticipating & Addressing Ethical & Legal Challenges at the 2025 annual meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (… Read more

At the 2025 annual meeting of the International Neuroethics Society (INS), Consortium Co-Chair Francis Shen, JD, PhD led a panel on The Dawn of Highly Portable AI-Enabled MRI Research in the Community: Proactively Addressing ELSI Challenges. Also participating in the session were neuroethics and… Read more

The Masonic Cancer Center (MCC), a Consortium Member Center, has announced a new partnership designed to improve the health outcomes of Black men. Together with Positive Image, a nonprofit providing education and expanded healthcare access to Black communities, MCC is delivering a… Read more

Researchers with the Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain (MIDB), a Consortium Member Center, are offering new insight into a relatively common brain malformation in children. A new study in the peer-reviewed journal Pediatrics, “Adaptive Functioning Development in Infants with… Read more

The Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), a Consortium Member Center, has launched the Vaccine Integrity Project, an effort to safeguard vaccine use throughout the nation. Eight leading public health and public policy experts, including CIDRAP Director … Read more

Scientific research increasingly involves large research networks crossing multiple institutions and disciplines. The authors of a new article find that research ethics has not adequately addressed the challenges of network research. They conducted interviews of scientists and engineers within such… Read more

As part of the annual U of M Day at the Minnesota State Capitol in February, the BioTechnology Institute (BTI) along with the Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation Center (BBIC) presented on research to support legislative requests. BTI Director Claudia Schmidt-Dannert,… Read more

What can a man’s hair follicles reveal about their risk of developing an aggressive form of prostate cancer? Researchers at the Masonic Cancer Center (MCC), a Consortium Member Center, say plenty. According to a recent study, led by MCC Researcher Robert Turesky, PhD, men who eat… Read more