Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues
White House Commission to Report on Incidental Findings
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The Obama Administration's bioethics advisory panel plans to write a report on how researchers, clinicians, and direct-to-consumer testing firms should handle any incidental but potentially important health-related and genetic information they discover while testing in
Federal Commission Urges Government Initiatives on Sequencing Data Privacy, Consent Process
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – An Obama Administration panel today released a dozen recommendations drafted to help create policies for securing whole-genome sequencing data, with the aim of protecting individual privacy without hampering the use of genome sequencing in research and medicine.
White House Bioethics Commission Unveils Draft of Genomic Privacy Policies
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues is getting closer to finalizing a set of recommendations for steps the White House could take to address privacy concerns stemming from the increased use of whole genome sequencing for research and clinical
People in the News: Lisa Lee
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Lisa Lee is the new executive director of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, succeeding Valerie Bonham, who is returning to the National Institutes of Health's Office of the General Counsel.
May 21, 2010