Prof. Wolf to Speak at NIH Meetings on Genomics and Access to HeLa Data

Professor Susan Wolf will speak at two National Institutes of Health (NIH)-sponsored meetings on genomic research on May 13-14. The first is a meeting of the Clinical Sequencing Exploratory Research Consortium on ethical, legal, and social issues in genomic research. Wolf participates in the consortium as an NIH-funded investigator. She will present on international work she has co-directed with colleagues at UCSF, Oxford, and the University of Basel on return of results in genomic research involving biobanks. The second meeting is an invitational Workshop on Scientific and Ethical Issues Related to Open Access HeLa Genomic Data. Wolf will present on the ethical implications of open versus controlled access to the data. For more on the HeLa Genome Access Working Group at NIH and the historic HeLa Genome Data Use Agreement, go to http://acd.od.nih.gov/hlgda.htm.