News & Publications

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For Center news, please see below.

 

CIRGE would like to welcome new postdoctoral fellow Nanibaa' Garrison. Nanibaa's research interests include personal genomics, human genetic ancestry and evolutionary history, and issues with privacy and confidentiality.

 

CIRGE would like to welcome new postdoctoral fellow CJ Murdoch. CJ is also part of the SCBE Program on Stem Cells in Society and the Stanford Law School Center for Law and the Biosciences. CJ will work on ethical and legal issues in stem cell research and behavioral genomics.

 

CIRGE Scholar David Magnus discussed the necessity for health care reform in a recent Stanford Medicine podcast.

 

CIRGE wishes former postdoctoral fellow Teneille Brown much luck and success in her new position as Associate Professor of Law at S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah.

CIRGE Scholars Kelly Ormond and Hank Greely voiced cautions about direct-to-consumer genetic testing in the ACP Internist.

In a local paper, CIRGE Scholar Mildred Cho commented on the complexity of the health care system.

CIRGE Scholar Sandra Lee presented her work on social networking and direct-to-consumer genomics at the July 2009 Genetics & Ethics in the 21st Century conference.

In a local paper, CIRGE Scholar Sandra Lee commented on the need for federal regulations for companies offering direct-to-consumer genetic testing.

In a local paper, CIRGE Scholar Hank Greely commented on the practice of banking newborn blood samples.

The Illusive Gold Standard in Genetic Ancestry Testing has been published by CIRGE Scholar Sandra Lee in Science.

 

Research 2.0: Social Networking and Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) Genomics has been published by CIRGE Scholars Sandra Lee and LaVera Crawley in the American Journal of Bioethics.

Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age, edited by CIRGE Scholar Sandra Lee along with Barbara Koenig and Sarah Richardson, received high praise in a recent Science book review.

 

"Biobanks, privacy, and the subpoena power" by CIRGE Scholar Teneille Brown, with Kelly Lowenberg, has been accepted for publication in the Stanford Journal of Science Policy and Law.

"Through A Scanner Darkly – functional neuroimaging as evidence of a criminal defendant’s past mental states" by CIRGE Scholar Teneille Brown, with Emily Murphy, has been accepted for publication in Volume 62 of the Stanford Law Review.

Please visit Active Areas of Research to find descriptions of current CIRGE projects including the newest endeavor, Judiciary Perspectives on the Genetics of Alcohol Use Disorders.

 

Biomedical scientists' perceptions of ethical and social implications: is there a role for research ethics consultation? by CIRGE Scholars Jennifer McCormick, Angie Boyce and Mildred Cho has been published online at PLoS ONE.

 

The "etiome": identification and clustering of human disease etiological factors by CIRGE Scholars Paul Wise and Atul Butte, with Yueyi Liu, has been published in BMC Bioinformatics.

CIRGE Scholar David Magnus has commented on the birth of the CA octuplets in The Washington Post and in Telegraph.co.uk.

Direct-to-consumer genetic tests: beyond medical regulation? by CIRGE Scholars David Magnus and Mildred Cho, with Robert Cook-Deegan, has been published in Genome Medicine.

 

Translating genomics into the clinic: moving to the post-Mendelian world by CIRGE Scholar Mildred Cho has been published in Genome Medicine.

Assessing the Understanding of Biobank Participants by CIRGE Scholar Kelly Ormond, et al. has been published in the American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A.

Racing forward: the Genomics and Personalized Medicine Act by CIRGE Scholar Sandra Lee and HumBio student Ashwin Mudaliar has been published in Science.

Race and ancestry in biomedical research: exploring the challenges by CIRGE Scholar Sandra Lee and others has been published in Genome Medicine.

 

Several presentations from the CIRGE 2006 Interpreting Complexity and 2008 Capturing Complexity Symposia are now featured on Nature Precedings as highlighted collections. Videos of the presentations are also linked from Nature Precedings to GoogleVideo.

Professor and CIRGE scholar Hank Greely commented on the issue of cognitive enhancement in a December 8, 2008 USNews.com article. He was also the coauthor of a December 7, 2008 Nature commentary on the topic.

 

Research ethics consultation: the Stanford experience, by CIRGE scholars Mildred Cho, Sally Tobin, Hank Greely, Jen McCormick, Angie Boyce and David Magnus, was published in IRB: Ethics & Human Research.