Dr. Pilar Ossorio

Biography

Pilar Ossorio is a Professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School with a focus on law and bioethics. She became the inaugural Ethics Scholar-in-Residence at the Morgridge Institute for Research in 2011 and currently serves as co-director of the University of Wisconsin's Law Neuroscience Program. In addition, she is a faculty member in the University of Wisconsin Masters in Biotechnology Studies program and a Program Faculty in the Graduate Program in Population Health. Previously, she was the Director of the Genetics Section at the Institute of Ethics of the American Medical Association and taught as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Chicago Law School. Ossorio holds a Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from Stanford University and a J.D. from the University of California-Berkeley. Her research interests include research ethics, protection of research participants, governance of large bioscience projects, data sharing in scientific research, racial considerations in biomedical research, and ethical issues in human subjects research. She has served on numerous advisory committees and boards and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

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