Professor Teneille Brown and Associate Professor Daniel Aaron recently received grants to support their health research. Learn more about their funding below.
Professor Teneille Brown
As part of an ongoing National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to study brain implants and the EEG-recording of memory formation, Brown received an institutional grant to research medical aid in dying.
“I’m working on the ethical and legal implications of a much larger grant that Cory Inman, PhD, got from NIH. The NIH’s Brain initiative won’t fund any projects without a bioethicist, so it was a critical piece,” Brown explains. “My work looks into people’s sense of privacy, agency, and sense of themselves if they were to have a neural implant that assisted with their memory retrieval.”
Associate Professor Daniel Aaron
Aaron received a large grant from the Arnold Ventures Fund to study FDA regulation research.
“This project is intended to explore a revitalization of the FDA’s original missions: public health and consumer protection. To that end, the project seeks to engage legal scholarship, health policy scholarship, and leading public health, medical, and legal experts to identify how that shift might occur, focusing on the medical product space,” Aaron said in the grant statement. “Likewise, it aims to identify overly simplistic arguments that have framed innovation (defined as the quantity of new products) as the lodestar of FDA approval, and suggest that such an approach risks not only compromising innovation, but diminishing FDA’s core public health and consumer protection roles.”