News and Announcements

• CT2G faculty member Rina Bliss highlighted in Science of Caring (December 2015, UCSF School of Nursing)

http://scienceofcaring.ucsf.edu/health-public/catherine-bliss-examines-race-and-science-post-genomic-world

• CT2G Co-Director, Dr. Barbara Koenig, guest edited the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics Special Issue “Should We Offer Genomic Research Results to a Participant’s Family, Including After the Participant’s Death?” Featured articles co-authored by Dr. Koenig include:
  • Returning a Research Participant’s Genomic Results to Relatives: Analysis and Recommendations
  • Preferences Regarding Return of Genomic Results to Relatives of Research Participants, Including After Participant Death: Empirical Results from a Cancer Biobank
  • Mapping the Ethics of Translational Genomics: Situating Return of Results and Navigating the Research-Clinical Divide
    
    Please click here for a link to the full issue. 

• “Institute for Health and Aging 30th Anniversary Celebration” (November 2015, UCSF School of Nursing) 

http://nursing.ucsf.edu/news/institute-health-and-aging-30th-anniversary-celebration

• NIH Bioethics Fellowship- Postdoc application deadline: Midnight 12/31/15). Pre-doc application deadline: Midnight 1/15/16.   

http://bioethics.nih.gov/education/index.shtml

• “Free course  Ethical and Social Challenges of Genomic and Precision Medicine starts April 27 on Coursera.

https://www.coursera.org/course/ethicalsocialgenomic

• “Millions of DNA samples stored in warehouse worry privacy advocates.” (Feburary 2015, LA Times)

http://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-pol-dna-privacy-20150202-story.html

• “Doing the Genomics Revolution Right.” (December 2014, Science of Caring, UCSF School of Nursing)

http://scienceofcaring.ucsf.edu/health-policy/doing-genomics-revolution-right

• “Bringing Up Baby: The promise and peril of newborn genome sequencing.” (Fall 2014, Breakthroughs, UC Berkeley Magazine)

http://nature.berkeley.edu/breakthroughs/fa14/bringing-up-baby

• “CT2G From Base Pairs to Bedside” (Spring 2014, Life Sciences Foundation Magazine)

http://www.lifesciencesfoundation.org/magazine.html

• Congratulations to Osagie K. Obasogie, JD, PhD  on his new book, “Blinded By Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind”

http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2014/01/19/how-blind-people-see-race/0pdBKGzv9y2P53BXWke0oO/story.html

• Wylie Burke, PhD, MD of the University of Washington named UCSF Presidential Chair 2013-2014

http://humangenetics.ucsf.edu/ihg-welcomes-presidential-scholar/
For more information on the UCSF Presidential Chair Award, click here

• “UCSF, Kaiser Permanente Launch Translational Genomics Ethics Center” (Nov 15, 2013,  GenomeWeb Daily News)

http://www.genomeweb.com/ucsf-kaiser-permanente-launch-translational-genomics-ethics-center

• Congratulations to Robert Nussbaum, MD and Barbara Koenig, PhD at UCSF on receiving a five year NIH grant to examine the potential of whole exome sequencing for newborn screening. The grant was co-funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). 

http://www.genome.gov/27554919
http://blogs.kqed.org/science/audio/should-every-newborn-undergo-genetic-testing/

• CT2G Co-Director, Barbara Koenig, PhD on her return to UCSF 

http://scienceofcaring.ucsf.edu/health-policy/ethics-evangelist

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