Grant from NIH allows for research across five schools

From the Daily Pennsylvanian (the student newspaper of the University of Pennsylvania):

The school of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has received a $5.4 million grant from NIH to fund a new Center for Excellence in Ethical, Legal and Social Implications, one of two new centers that will examine questions surrounding genetic research.

The Center will focus on the implications of new genetic technologies, such as prenatal genetic testing. It represents an unusually collaborative effort involving five of Penn’s 12 schools.

Professors from the Annenberg School for Communication, the School of Arts and Sciences, the Wharton School, and the School of Nursing will also lend their expertise to the Center.

Med School professor Barbara Bernhardt is heading one project, for example, that explores how confident patients and doctors are in the effectiveness of a new genetic test … Other projects being headed by the center at Penn include a historical analysis of prenatal testing for cystic fibrosis and Down syndrome …

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