Duke University Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy Center for Genome Ethics Law and Policy (seriously, was there nobody available at the branding company that day?? 'GELP'?) is hiring what we think is the first full-time "benchside bioethics" faculty member ever. It is a great idea, one in fact
we're trying ourselves, but Duke - funded by truckloads of money from NIH NHGRI ELSI (yet again, branding people out to lunch...) and led by
Robert Cook-Deegan, a versatile, well-published and affable scholar Duke recruited from RWJ/IOM (if you think we're going to mock the IOM, think again) has the idea down to a science:
Associate Director for Research Ethics Consultation
... (GELP) seeks to hire an Associate Director for Research Ethics Consultation. The Associate Director will work with research teams at Duke on large or complex research projects to ensure that ethical and policy issues are considered from the start of the research conception and study design, and throughout the course of research; his or her focus will be broader than issues related to IRB approval. The Associate Director will also link to other national bioethics centers developing a capacity for “bench to bedside” research ethics advice, and conduct independent scholarly research of his or her own, related to the themes of science, ethics, research and society
