Prof. Wolf to Co-Direct International Workshop in Geneva on Genomic Research

Professor Susan Wolf will co-direct the first major international workshop on the controversial question of whether researchers should return individual results and incidental findings to people participating in genomic research. Colleagues from Asia, Australia, Africa, Europe, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States will gather at the Brocher Centre outside Geneva to compare data and policies across national and regional lines, in an effort to map differences and move toward harmonization. This workshop is funded by the Brocher Foundation, an NIH grant on which Wolf is a principal investigator (NIH/NCI/NHGRI grant #1-R01-CA154517), the Wellcome Trust in the United Kingdom, and the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences. Workshop organizers, in addition to Wolf, are Barbara Koenig, PhD (UC San Francisco), Jane Kaye, LLB, DPhil (Oxford), and Bernice Elger, MD, PhD (Univ. of Basel).