Stanford Center for
Biomedical Ethics

Center for Integration of Research on Genetics and Ethics

CIRGE is one of four interdisciplinary Centers of Excellence in Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) research created by the National Human Genome Research Institute of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, to proactively identify and 
deliberate ethical, legal, and social issues in current and emerging genetic research.
CIRGE News

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SCBE Project Manager Emily Borgelt, SCBE Senior Research Scholar Chris Scott, and UBC's Shafik Dharamsi published Dear Student: Stem Cell Scientists' Advice to the Next Generation in Cell Stem Cell!

CIRGE Post-Doc Nanibaa' Garrison and two of her colleagues at UC Berkeley and University of Washington published Forensic familial searching: scientific and social implications in Nature Reviews Genetics!

CIRGE PI Mildred Cho, former CIRGE Post-Bacc Lauren Sayres, and their colleagues from Duke published Commercial landscape of noninvasive prenatal testing in the United States in Prenatal Diagnosis!

Stanford Genetic Counselor Megan Grove and SCBE's Maya Wolpert, Mildred Cho, Sandra Lee, and Kelly Ormond published Views of Genetics Health Professionals on the Return of Genomic Results in the Journal of Genetic Counseling!

SCBE's Megan Allyse, Lauren Sayres, Molly Havard, Jaime King, Hank Greely, Louanne Hudgens, J. Taylor, Mary Norton, Mildred Cho, David Magnus and Kelly Ormond published Best ethical practices for clinicians and laboratories in the provision of noninvasive prenatal testing in Prenatal Diagnosis!

Former CIRGE Post-Bacc Lauren Sayres, CIRGE PI Mildred Cho, and their colleagues published Commercial landscape of noninvasive prenatal testing in the United States in Prenatal Diagnosis!

CIRGE Post-Docs Megan Allyse and Marsha Michie published Not-so-incidental findings: the ACMG
recommendations on the reporting of incidental findings in clinical whole genome and whole exome sequencing
in Trends in Biotechnology!

SCBE Senior Research Scholar Katrina Karkazis and Stanford medical student Katie Miller published Health Beliefs and Practices in an Isolated Polygamist Community of Southern Utah in the Journal of Religion and Health!

CIRGE Post-Doc Lauren Milner and SCBE Director David Magnus published Can Informed Consent Go Too Far? Balancing Consent and Public Benefit in Research in the American Journal of Bioethics!

CIRGE Program Manager Colleen Berryessa and CIRGE PI Mildred Cho published Ethical, Legal, Social, and Policy Implications of Behavioral Genetics (advance copy) in the Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics!

CIRGE post-doc Nanibaa' Garrison and CIRGE PI Mildred Cho published Awareness and Acceptable Practices: IRB and Researcher Reflections on the Havasupai Lawsuit in AJOB Primary Research!

CIRGE Post-Doc Nanibaa' Garrison was featured in Shifting Roles, Shifting Research: Collaborative Genetic Studies with Indigenous Communities in Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science Winter Magazine!

CIRGE post-doc Marsha Michie and her colleagues from UNC Chapel Hill and Wake Forest published What Research Ethics Should Learn from Genomics and Society Research: Lessons from the ELSI Congress of 2011 in the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics!

CIRGE post-doc Nanibaa' Garrison published Genomic Justice for Native Americans: Impact of the Havasupai Case on Genetic Research in Science, Technology & Human Values!

CIRGE Events

CIRGE Conferences, Seminars, and Events for the 2012-2013 Academic Year are under way! Please check out Center Activities to learn more information and find out how to participate!

To be notified of upcoming CIRGE and SCBE Events, please join our mailing lists! Please subscribe here to to be notified about upcoming CIRGE events, and please subscribe here to be notified of all upcoming events at SCBE!

Missed Duke Professor Robert Cook-Deegan's September 2012 CIRGE Speaking Event? A recording can be found HERE! For recordings from the May 2012 Prenatal Genetic Testing Conference co-hosted by CIRGE and the Stanford Center for Law & the Biosciences, please click here.

For more events, please see the SCBE events page.

CIRGE research

Researchers at CIRGE are dedicated to furthering public understanding and awareness of key ethical, legal and social issues in emerging human genetic variation research.

Current projects underway at the Center include a study of the biological and social constructions of autism as a disease, and a study of medical and graduate students' attitudes towards personal genomics.

More projects will be added as investigators continue to identify which concerns are most pressing and relevant to current trends in genetic technologies and research.

For more information, please see Active Areas of Research.

RELATED National & international Events

2013 American Society for Bioethics & Humanities
Annual Meeting
October 24-27, 2013
Atlanta, GA


2013 American Society of Human Genetics
Annual Meeting
October 22-26, 2013
Boston, MA

ways to give gifts

A gift may be made in the form of a check, securities, a bequest, or a complex trust arrangement designed to maximize tax advantages. Checks should be made payable to Stanford University.

For financial donations, the primary contact for the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics is:

Anne Crowe
Assistant Director
650-498-5305
agcrowe@stanford.edu

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