Stanford Bio-X has announced the creation of a new grant program—to be led by professors Barbara Koenig (Center for Biomedical Ethics), Henry T. Greely (Law School), and Debra Satz (Department of Philosophy)—that will build on and expand existing interdisciplinary collaborations. The goal of the program is to strengthen the “ethics infrastructure” of neuroscience research at Stanford by establishing: (1) a Faculty Development Seminar that will include a bimonthly seminar series and journal club; (2) a new curriculum specifically devoted to ethical issues in the neurosciences, targeted at graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and clinical trainees; and (3) a seed funding program for new research collaborations at the interface of ethics and neuroscience. This model—beginning with its attempt in the neurosciences to establish “upstream” collaboration between scientists, clinicians and bioethics scholars—represents an important advance in the way research is currently approached in the American academy and promises to establish Stanford as a leading force in innovative, interdisciplinary research and teaching. * To find out more about Stanford’s Bio-X program, please see the following LST @ Stanford article: Opening of New James H. Clark Center Enables Interdisciplinary Bio-X Program to Link 23 Stanford University Departments |
