Kate Brauman's day job is at the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment (IonE), a Consortium member. There, she is lead scientist for IonE's Global Water Assessment, which incorporates policy and economic approaches into water resource management.
While outbreaks of measles and Ebola are dominating the news, African swine fever (ASF) "has wiped out pork productions across China, Mongolia, Vietnam, and most recently, Cambodia, without signs of stopping," according to Popular Science. ASF has already claimed more than 1 million pigs in China alone. Though the illness can't be contracted by humans (as can swine flu), it's highly contagious and threatens the food supply in countries that are dependent on pork.
Two major media outlets have run coverage of last week's LawSeqSM conference and webcast, held on the University of Minnesota campus. Science Magazine focused on the difficulty of accurately interpreting genomic variants, and the legal liability claims that could result.
Rising measles infections in the US and the spread of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) illustrate the difficulty of controlling outbreaks once they start.
A new online resource, developed by experts in the Clinicial and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and the Department of Pediatrics, is now available to University of Minnesota clinical researchers, grant coordinators and others to help them save time when completing the National Institutes of Health Study Record, which is used to collect information on proposed human subjects research, clinical research, and clinical trials. The “
An article in Nature describes the need for more diversity in genomic research. As of 2018, 78% of data use in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) were derived from people of European descent.
On April 3, Prof. Lisa Ikemoto, JD, LLM (UC Davis School of Law) gave a provocative lecture in which she described current uses of biohacking – bodily modification to enhance human capacity – and their implications for law, regulation and conceptions of what is human.
The fourth annual University of Minnesota Research Ethics Conference, held on March 6, explored how big changes in rules and oversight are affecting researchers and research participants. Recordings of all sessions – including plenary talks by Carrie D.
Each year, the Consortium funds research projects related to the intersection of science and society. In November, 2018, we issued a call for proposals to graduate and professional students at the University of Minnesota, to provide a stipend for research and writing in the Summer 2019 or academic year 2019-20. We were delighted to receive proposals from 28 students in 21 programs around the University. Six awards were made for a total of $34,650.
On Feb. 28, Michael Imperiale (University of Michigan) shared the work of a committee he led that was tasked with outlining potential responses to new bioweapons.