At the Institute.

• Author: Bailey, Tracey M.

We are pleased to announce two new grants. The first is a three-year $90,000 award from the CIHR Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction (INMHA) for a project titled "NeuroScience And Norms: Ethical and Legal Aspects of Norms in Neuroimaging". This grant is awarded under a trilateral "Neuroethics Initiative" partnership between INMHA, the Academy of Finland (AF) and the German Federal Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF). The Neuroethics Initiative aims to bring together relevant and competitive researchers and research teams from Canada, Finland and Germany to design and carry out jointly organized research projects in the field of neuroethics. The HLI research team, led by Professor Timothy Caulfield, will partner with researchers from the University of Bonn in Germany, the University of Helsinki, Finland, and the Institute for Science and Ethics in Bonn, Germany.

The Health Law Institute is also thrilled to announce the recent Stem Cell Network funding award for the project entitled "The Stem Cell Research Environment: Drawing the Evidence and Experience together (PP2)". This exciting three year project will draw an international team of collaborators together to examine the nature of the stem cell research environment and its impact on research strategies, movement of trained researchers, capacity to conduct research, intellectual property in and ownership of research outputs, funding opportunities, research productivity, reception of emerging technologies, public perceptions of the research and future investment mechanisms. This work will seek to inform public policy and will contribute to the broader knowledge base surrounding the complex ethical, legal and social issues engaged by stem cell research and other novel technologies.

Our seminar series has begun for 2008-2009 with Dr. Judy Illes, Professor of Neurology and Canada Research Chair in Neuroethics, National Core for Neuroethics, University of...