Prof. Wolf's Work Cited by Presidential Commission Report on Incidental Findings

The Presidential Commission on Bioethics has released its long-awaited report on incidental findings. The report quotes and cites heavily from NIH-funded projects led by Professor Susan Wolf with co-investigators and the resulting publications. The report says that "Research groups funded by the National Institutes of Health--including those led by Susan Wolf...--have focused on the management of incidental findings that arise in the research and clinical contexts," citing to "National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) grant #R01- HG00178 for a two-year project on 'Managing Incidental Findings in Human Subjects Research' (Susan M. Wolf, principal investigator; Jeffrey P. Kahn, Frances Lawrenz, Charles A. Nelson, co-investigators)..." This was the first of several NIH-funded projects on return of results and incidental findings led by Wolf working with multiple co-investigators and collaborators across the country, and based in the University's Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences. For more on these grants and the resulting publications, visit http://consortium.umn.edu/grants_research/home.html.