Consortium Receives $900K Grant from the NIH to Develop Nanomedicine Research Ethics
The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded the University of Minnesota's Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences a grant of $914,044 as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (the Recovery Act) for a 2-year project on Nanodiagnostics and Nanotherapeutics: Building Research Ethics and Oversight. This project will produce the first systematic and comprehensive recommendations on how to protect human participants in research on nanodiagnostics and nanotherapeutics, including drugs, devices, and gene therapy using non-viral nano-vectors. Prof. Susan M. Wolf, JD, is the Principal Investigator. Co-Investigators are Profs. Ralph Hall, JD; Jeffrey McCullough, MD; and Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH.
Prof. Andrea Braverman, PhD
