Amritava Das, whose interdisciplinary work at Morgridge straddled biomedical engineering and bioethics, is taking his career beyond the theoretical realms of science, into the worlds of government policy and national defense.
Category: Bioethics
Morgridge Bioethics: Navigating the challenges in cutting-edge biomedical research
The Research Ethics Consultations Service (RECS), launched in 2014 by Morgridge Ethics Investigator Pilar Ossorio, has taken on more than 60 inquiries from UW–Madison researchers on bioethical concerns large and small.
Winning bioethics cartoon targets publicly restricted research
Five prizes were awarded in the sixth annual Morgridge Institute for Research Ethics Cartooning Competition, which invites participants to make a cartoon on any ethical issue related to biomedical research.
2022-2023 Morgridge Ethics Cartooning Competition – Public Voting
Eighteen cartoons have been selected as finalists in the 2023 Ethics Cartooning Competition, an annual contest sponsored by the Morgridge Institute.
COVID lawsuits push doctors to provide substandard care
In this Wisconsin Examiner report, Morgridge Bioethicist in Residence Pilar Ossorio addresses the dangerous notion of “whatever the patient wants, the patient gets” when it comes to the rash of unproven and disproven treatments related to COVID.