Research Ethics Grand Rounds
Research Ethics Grand Rounds is a seminar series of local and invited speakers, addressing current ethical, legal and social issues in the design and conduct of biomedical research involving human subjects.
Research Ethics Grand Rounds
Past Research Ethics Grand Rounds
2024 Parr|Bioethics Joint Lecturer
President and CEO, The Hastings Center Senior Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School Professor, University of … Read more
All of Us
Developing a Scalable Consent for Diverse Participant Engagement
The All of Us Research Program, a keystone of the Precision Medicine Initiative, aims to assemble … Read more
Burgoo vs. Quinoa
Reconciling Local vs. Global Governance in Networked Biorepositories
As biomedical research generates ever-growing requirements for large sample sizes, it has increasingly depended on biorepositories to provide biosamples and … Read more
Pathways to Trust
Genomics, Precision Medicine, and Health Disparities
Wylie Burke, MD, PhD is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of … Read more
Digital Informed Consent for Pragmatic and Other Large-scale Trials
Digital technologies are changing how people are recruited to research and raising new ethical, practical, and social considerations. Informed consent … Read more
Updating Regulations for Human Subjects Research
The New Common Rule has Arrived! What Changes are Coming?
In early 2017, just prior to the change in administration, the 18 federal agencies that share the “Common Rule” that … Read more
Reflecting on “Experimenting with Humans and Animals”
Looking at human and animal experimentation together revealed intersections and differences that were not immediately evident. This talk will look at … Read more
Ethical and Regulatory issues in “E-consent” to Clinical Research
As translational researchers turn to electronic information sources for clinical research recruitment, they are increasingly using on-line communication tools to … Read more
Ethics of treatment interruption in HIV cure trials
Normative and empirical perspectives
Gail E. Henderson, PhD, is professor of Social Medicine in the School of Medicine, and Director of the UNC Center … Read more
Duties to look, return, or rescue
Moral obligations and incidental findings in research
Dr. Karen Meagher graduated in Hamilton College in 2004 with a B.A.in biology. She received a PhD in Philosophy from … Read more
Employees as research participants
Ethical and regulatory considerations
Dr. Resnik has an M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and J.D. … Read more
Should we take the moral concerns of biobank donors seriously?
Biobanking is becoming an increasingly important component of genomic and medical research. President Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative ― which proposes the … Read more
Join the Conquest
Increasing participation in clinical research in North Carolina
Clinical trial recruitment is in crisis. The public typically encounters clinical trial information in controversies or study-specific recruitment ads, which … Read more
Patient perspectives on research on standard medical practices
Implications for consent
Dr. Kevin P. Weinfurt is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke Clinical … Read more
Informed consent for oncology phase 1 clinical trials in the 21st century
Dr. Katie Reeder-Hayes and Dr. Claire Dees, UNC Division of Oncology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.