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October 9, 2009

Consortium Receives a Second $900K NIH Grant

The NHGRI/NIH grant will fund a 2-year project on Nanodiagnostics and Nanotherapeutics: Building Research Ethics and Oversight.

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). This project, Nanodiagnostics and Nanotherapeutics: Building Research Ethics and Oversight, 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.

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