Prof. Wolf Lectures in Israel for Ministry of Health & European Network on Rare Diseases

Professor Susan Wolf lectured in Tel Aviv at the invitation of the Israeli Ministry of Health and E-Rare, the European Research Area Network for Research on Rare Diseases. E-Rare is funded by the European Commission, and involves 16 research funding agencies and ministries from 12 European (or associated) member states. Wolf's lecture was part of a workshop on "Ethical Aspects of Exome and Whole Genome Sequencing Studies." She was invited to lecture on whether to offer back to research participants incidental findings and individual research results of potential importance to their health. This contentious question has been the focus of a series of projects that Wolf has led funded by NIH and now the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. For more on those projects, visit http://lawvalue.umn.edu/grants_research/home.html.