The Ethics & Public Policy (EPP) component of this Center is based in the University of Minnesota’s Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences; ATP-Bio has joined the Consortium to link to centers doing related work. EPP will work with ATP-Bio researchers and an Ethics & Public Policy Panel (EP3) comprised of multidisciplinary national experts in ethics and policy. They will build an integrated and interdisciplinary program of ethics and policy analysis to achieve the following:
To advance ethics in research by augmenting standard review by IRB, IACUC, and other ethics bodies; identifying and analyzing ethical issues raised by ATP-Bio research; and providing a forum for investigators and trainees to raise questions of research ethics.
To guide ethical development and deployment of breakthrough technologies by conducting embedded ethics analysis in close collaboration with engineering teams; develop plausible use cases for ATP-Bio technologies to ground ethics analysis, responsible innovation, and anticipatory governance; guide ethical technology development and deployment; and publish ethics and policy analyses focused on ATP-Bio breakthrough technologies.
To collaborate on training investigators, students, and postdocs in ethics; create an ATP-Bio online portal of ethics and policy resources; sponsor events featuring ethics and policy experts, with in-person, webcast, and video options; collaborate on developing trainings and courses; and offer trainees opportunities to collaborate with the EPP team on societal issues.
Susan Wolf, JD (UMN)
Ethics and Public Policy Lead
Timothy Pruett, MD (UMN)
Ethics and Public Policy Co-Lead