Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant
Funds exploratory studies of the ethical, legal and social consequences of human genetics, especially where a technology or a use of genomic data is new.
Every genomic capability arrives before the rules for it do. The National Human Genome Research Institute funds the work of catching up, and this is its exploratory mechanism.
The subject is the ethical, legal and social implications of human genetics and genomics. What counts as method is unusually wide: empirical qualitative work, empirical quantitative work, and conceptual, legal and normative…
Exploratory research on the ethical, legal and social implications of human genetics and genomics, using single or mixed methods including empirical qualitative and quantitative work and conceptual, legal and normative analysis, with particular interest in new or emerging genomic technologies and novel uses of genomic information. Clinical trials are optional.
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