Biomedical and behavioral research

News and Updates

Mar 2023

“Popularly Enthralling and Ethically Disquieting”: As Psychedelics Research and Medicine Goes Mainstream, Greenwall Faculty Scholars Weigh In

After a half-century of relative dormancy, there has been a recent, tremendous surge in the clinical use and research of psychedelics like ketamine and psilocybin. The legal and cultural...

Nov 2021

Foundation Announces Fall 2021 Making a Difference Grants

The Foundation will fund six new research projects from the Fall 2021 cycle of its Making a Difference in Real-World Bioethics Dilemmas grant program.
The Making a...

Jun 2021

Foundation Announces Spring 2021 Making a Difference Grants

The Foundation will fund five new research projects from the Spring 2021 cycle of its Making a Difference in Real-World Bioethics Dilemmas grant program.
The Making a...

Nov 2020

Foundation Announces Fall 2020 Making a Difference Grants

The Greenwall Foundation will fund five new research projects from the Fall 2020 cycle of its Making a Difference in Real-World Bioethics Dilemmas grant...

Sep 2020

Ensuring the Ethical Inclusion of Pregnant Women in HIV Research

Faculty Scholars Program Alum Leads Development of Guidelines for Researchers

Many OB/GYNs frequently must make treatment recommendations for pregnant patients...

Scholars

Emily A. Largent, JD, PhD, RN

Class of 2023 University of Pennsylvania

Danielle M. Wenner, PhD

Class of 2022 Carnegie Mellon University

Holly Fernandez Lynch, JD, MBE

Class of 2022 University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Miranda R. Waggoner, PhD

Class of 2022 Florida State University

Paul P. Christopher, MD

Class of 2021 Brown University

Govind Persad, JD, PhD

Class of 2021 University of Denver, Sturm College of Law

Andrew Peterson, MA, PhD

Class of 2021 George Mason University

Sean Aas, MA, PhD

Class of 2020 Georgetown University

Jessica L. Roberts, JD

Class of 2018 University of Houston Law Center

Douglas John Opel, MD, MPH

Class of 2018 University of Washington School of Medicine

Efthimios Parasidis, JD, MBE

Class of 2017 The Ohio State University

Gidon Felsen, PhD

Class of 2017 University of Colorado School of Medicine

Neal W. Dickert, MD, PhD

Class of 2016 Emory University School of Medicine

I. Glenn Cohen, JD

Class of 2015 Harvard Law School

Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby, MA, PhD

Class of 2014 Baylor College of Medicine

Scott D. Halpern, MD, PhD, MBioethics

Class of 2011 University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Scott Y. H. Kim, MD, PhD

Class of 2009 National Institutes of Health

Amy Lynn McGuire, JD, PhD

Class of 2009 Baylor College of Medicine

Anne Drapkin Lyerly, MD, MA

Class of 2007 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Leslie E. Wolf, JD, MPH

Class of 2006 Georgia State University College of Law

Jason Karlawish, MD

Class of 2005 University of Pennsylvania

Anna C. Mastroianni, JD, MPH

Class of 2005 University of Washington School of Law

Grants

Institutional Obligations for Pragmatic Clinical Trials: Developing A Normative Account and Practical Guidance

Stephanie Morain, PhD Johns Hopkins University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2023

Dilemmas of health equity in global health research: A study of research on climate-sensitive infectious disease

Maria Merritt, PhD Johns Hopkins University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2022

Exploring Decision-Making about Participation in an Industry-Sponsored in vivo Gene Therapy Clinical Trial for Fabry Disease

Alison Bateman-House, PhD New York University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2022

Developing Practical Recommendations for Precision AI-enabled Clinically Embedded Research (PACER)

Justin Starren, MD, PhD Northwestern University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2021

Ethics in the Interim: Learning from the COVID-19 pandemic to develop ethical guidance for data and safety monitoring committees overseeing clinical trials

Seema Shah, JD Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2021

The Ethics of Implementing Coronavirus Vaccines: Independence, Transparency, and Social Confidence

William Feldman, MD, DPhil Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2021

Understanding perspectives on genomic research in an ethnically and racially diverse cohort of parents

Ingrid Holm, MD, MPH Boston Children’s Hospital

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2021

Who should be treated? The ethical challenges of administering opioid agonist treatment (OAT) for people who inject drugs during COVID-19

Roberto Abadie, PhD University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2021

Preventing the initiation of, and deprioritizing the continuation of, uninformative clinical trials

Barbara Bierer, MD Brigham and Women's Hospital

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2020

A Collaborative Ethical Approach to Advancing the Science of Synthetic Living Models of Human Biology

Insoo Hyun, PhD Case Western Reserve University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2018

Drawing the line: Assessing and analyzing the US Rule on embryo research from ethical, political, and scientific perspectives

Kirstin Matthews, PhD Rice University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2017

A new ethical and regulatory approach for the use of human challenge studies with emerging infectious diseases

Seema Shah, JD Seattle Children's Hospital | Ann & Robert H. Lurie Childrens Hospital of Chicago

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2017

A patient-centered perspective on human subjects protections for deceased donor organ intervention research

Elisa J. Gordon, PhD Northwestern University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2017

The MOST-consent study: Patient-driven consent for a multi-center adaptive trial in acute ischemic stroke

Neal Dickert, MD, PhD Emory University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2017

Improving Understanding of Clinical Research Studies: An Experimental Study to Compare Two Simple Informed Consent Strategies to Traditional Informed Consent in the Context of Ongoing, Real Clinical Studies

Nancy E. Kass, ScD Johns Hopkins University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2016

A System for Academic Recognition of Data Generators

Barbara Bierer, MD Brigham & Women's Hospital

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2016

Toward a Consensus Operational Definition of Child Assent for Research

Alan Robert Tait University of Michigan

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2015

Promoting Ethical Research with Stored Biospecimens as Science Evolves

Jeffrey Peppercorn, MD Massachusetts General Hospital

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2015

Re-Engaging Ethics: Ethical Issues in Engaged Research

Giselle Corbie-Smith, MD University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2015

Evaluating Patient Perspectives to Inform the Ethical Implementation of a Rapid Learning System for Oncology Care

Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil University of Michigan

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2014

Research Ethics Reconsidered in the Context of Community-Engaged Research

Sarena D. Seifer, MD Community-Campus Partnerships for Health

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2014

Consumer Responses to the Public Disclosure of Physician Payments

Genevieve Pham-Kanter, PhD University of Colorado, Denver

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2014

Ethical Implications of Excluding the Mentally Ill from Medical Treatment Research

Keith Humphreys, PhD Stanford University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2014

Physician Disclosures in the Real World of Conflicting Interests and Off-Label Prescribing

Susannah Rose, PhD Cleveland Clinic

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2014

Clinical Trial Participants' Attitudes Towards Expanded Access to Participant-Level Clinical Trial Data

Michelle Mello, JD, PhD Stanford University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2014

Assessing the Impact of Videos and Comics on Knowledge and Attitudes About Randomization for Research on Medical Practices

Mildred Cho, PhD Stanford University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2014

The Normative Significance of the Optimistic Bias for Informed Consent to Clinical Research

Lynn A. Jansen, PhD Oregon Health & Science University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2014

Does Comparative Effectiveness Research Promote Rationing or Rational Cancer Care?

Jeffrey Peppercorn, MD Duke University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2013

Ethical, Legal, and Practical Solutions for Research Combining Electronic Medical Records and Genomic Sequence Data

Henry T. Greely, JD Stanford University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2013