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Minds Apart: Severe Brain Injury and Health Policy
Joseph J. Fins, M.D., PI
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
7/1/2007-6/30/2010
This Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research will fund interdisciplinary research into how best to serve the needs of patients with severe brain injury and their families through better clinical services and the promotion of clinical research. The work is designed to improve clinician-family communication about brain injury, inform educational standards for professionals, and articulate a justification for research in patients who are unable to provide consent.

Neuroethics and Disorders of Consciousness
Joseph J. Fins, M.D., PI
The Buster Family Foundation
11/1/2004-10/31/2009

Biology and Ethics: Evaluating the Claim that Biotechnologies Pose a Threat to Human Dignity
Inmaculada de Melo-Martín, Ph.D., M.S., PI
National Science Foundation
This two-year study will examine the ways in which the concept of human dignity is used in current debates about contentious biotechnologies such as human genetic enhancement, the creation of human-nonhuman chimeras, and embryonic stem cell research. It will provide the first systematic assessment of what several influential scholars and recent national and international science policy documents mean when they say that these technologies threaten human dignity. Thus, the research can play a role in improving dialogue between the sciences and the humanities, and between the sciences and society.

Sustaining and Building Research Infrastructure for the Study of Disorders of Consciousness
Joseph J. Fins, M.D., PI
Richard Lounsbery Foundation
7/1/2009-6/30/2009

Framework Program for Global Health
Inmaculada de Melo-Martin, Ph.D., M.S., Mentor (In collaboration with the Department of Medicine. P.I.: Warren Johnson, M.D.)
Fogarty International Center
10/1/06 – 9/30/09
The aim of this multidisciplinary project, developed by faculty at the five Cornell University colleges, will create a global health curriculum that combines new courses and seminars with existing courses and domestic and international research experiences and internships to provide a career pathway for the next generation of global health scientists, and will encourage researchers in global health to engage in greater collaboration and interactions in research.

Recently Completed Grants

Mending the Brain, Minding our Ethics II
Joseph J. Fins, M.D. (In collaboration with the Department of Neurology. P.I.: Nicolas Schiff, M.D.)
Charles A. Dana Foundation
11/1/2005-10/31/2008

Cornell Advanced Center for Interventions and Services Research
Joseph J. Fins, M.D. (In collaboration with the Department of Psychiatry. P.I.: George Alexopoulos, M.D.)
National Institute of Mental Health
8/7/2003-7/31/2008

Advanced Research Institute in Geriatric Psychiatry
Joseph J. Fins, M.D. (In collaboration with the Department of Psychiatry. P.I.: Martha Bruce, Ph.D., M.P.H.)
National Institute of Mental Health
8/15/2003-7/31/2008