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The Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics in the Department of Pediatrics at Stanford University seeks an Academic Scholar with a record indicating scholarly activity in any areas related to Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues in Genetics, Genomics, or Precision Medicine to join the Department as Assistant Professor or Associate Professor in the Non-tenure Line (Research) faculty line. We are particularly interested in candidates who have a terminal degree (PhD, JD, MD, etc.) at the time of appointment.

A part-time, temporary Research Aide is needed to assist the Principal Investigator with a research project investigating implications of genetic explanations of addiction in the Department of Psychiatry, Division of Law, Ethics, and Psychiatry. This position is temporary for 4 to 8 months. Responsibilities: -Performs coding of transcripts of qualitative research interviews, including assisting with codebook development as needed. -Assists with analysis and interpretation of qualitative data from research interviews. -Assists with general research administration tasks.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is piloting an ethical, legal, and societal implications (ELSI) Visiting Scholar one-year position for a mid-career professional who studies the ELSI aspects of emerging technologies. As a global leader in innovation, DARPA starts about 50 new programs each year across a variety of technical disciplines to develop breakthrough technologies for national security, many of which include ELSI-relevant questions.

The Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics in the Department of Pediatrics at Stanford University seeks an Academic Scholar with a record indicating scholarly activity in any areas related to Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues in Genetics, Genomics, or Precision Medicine to join the Department as Assistant Professor or Associate Professor in the Non-tenure Line (Research) faculty line. We are particularly interested in candidates who have a terminal degree (PhD, JD, MD, etc.) at the time of appointment.

With interests in bioethics, social science, health policy, public health, epidemiology, or related field to work on an NIH-funded study examining the social, clinical, and ethical implications of using polygenic risk scores in child and adolescent psychiatry, as well as other studies exploring ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of genomics. The research assistant will be part of an interdisciplinary team of researchers led by Stacey Pereira, PhD; Eric A. Storch, PhD; and Gabriel Lázaro-Muñoz, PhD, JD (Harvard). This is a non-laboratory research position.

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