This Week in CGREALut Life Extension."
Richard Settersten Jr. Jennifer Fishman, Marcie Lambrix, Michael Flatt, and Robert Binstock have published a commentary in the latest issue of the American Journal of Bioethics, titled "The Salience of Language in Probing Public Attitudes about Life Extension."
Erica Haimes has been invited to join the UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority's Ethics and Law Advisory Committee and the International Society of Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) Ethics and Public Policy Committee, in order to provide insight into social science research on, and the social aspects of, assisted conception.
Congratulations to Patty Marshall, Aaron Goldenberg, and Christian Simon, who were among the recipients of the the widely sought NIH "Challenge Grants"!
Patty Marshall and Aaron Goldenberg's grant, "Community Voices On Health Disparities And Translational Genomics Research", will examine beliefs and experiences that influence understanding of genomic research and its application to health disparities among underserved and minority populations in Cleveland, Ohio, to identify barriers to genomics research relevant to health disparities, and to develop innovative approaches for addressing these barriers through collaborative community-based partnerships.
Christian Simon's challenge grant, "Managing Incidental Findings In The Genomic Era", will examine how the prospect of incidental findings is addressed in the context of GWAS and CMA, and continues to build on earlier work he did through a CGREAL seed grant.
Jeff Botkin has been appointed by Francis Collins as the Chair of the NIH Stem Cell Eligibility Working Group, which will vet human stem cell lines for NIH funded research, and Dena Davis will be a member of that committee!
