Dr. Molldrem presented new research, served as a discussant in an “Author Meets Critic” session, co-convened an Open Panel, and co-hosted a lunch meetup for the “Knowledge of AIDS” network 

They presented their poster at the Texas Regional CTSA Consortium meeting

Dr. Alberto Aparicio present “They Want To Live Forever: Private Investors And The Making Of A Life Extension Revolution In Biomedicine” the Society for Social Studies of Science Conference

Elise Smith was awarded an National Science Foundation(NSF) grant for the project titled: “Developing a Social Responsibility Toolkit for Scientists Working on Cleanup Sites”. This project in collaboration with Drs. Croisant, Molldrem and Hallberg builds on prior work that was funded by the Institute for Translational Sciences’ pilot award and the Gulf Coast Center Precision Environmental Health Pilot Award.

Dr. Lisa Campo-Engelstein and Anna Dean Pfeiffer published "The ethics of non-partner requests for posthumous assisted reproduction” in the Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Their article, “Breaking Binaries: The Critical Need for Feminist Bioethics in Pediatric Gender-Affirming Care,” was published in the Hastings Center Report.

On May 30, 2024, IBBH Assistant Professor Dr. Jacob D. Moses and Dr. Allan Brandt (Harvard University) published an essay, “Stigma and the Return of Syphilis,” in the health news outlet STAT.

His article, “Life Extension Should Come with Wisdom: Reflections and Questions for the Geroscience and Longevity Community,” was published in Rejuvenation Research.

Postdoctoral fellow Dr. Jessica Olivares, BHH faculty Drs. Emma Tumilty and Lisa Campo-Engelstein, and UTMB CAST faculty Dr. Kathryn Cunningham publish article in The American Journal of Bioethics.

Graduate students Hannah Carpenter, Georgia Loutrianakis, Peyton Baker, Tiffany Bystra, and Dr. Lisa Campo-Engelstein publish “Procreative Loss Without Pregnancy Loss.” Journal of Medical Ethics (2024).

Dr. Emma Tumilty recently participated in a panel discussion organized by Art Repeneurship Galveston, exploring the topic "AI: Friend or Foe."

The article is titled “What to do with the new molecular publics: the vernacularization of pathogen genomics and the future of infectious disease biosocialities.”

Dr. Sarah Baker was appointed Associate Dean for Student Affairs at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

The new article by Dr. Alberto Aparicio is entitled, "Accept no limits: biocontainment and the construction of a safer space for experimentation in xenobiology as a legacy of Asilomar."

Their article compares two cases of pediatric gender-affirming care and discusses the ethical tensions therein.

The March 5, 2024 talk was titled “The Controversy Over Molecular HIV Surveillance and the Question of Consent in Public Health Ethics: Where Do We Go from Here?”

At the Shine Academy’s 2024 conference, Johnna Wellesley and her team won first place for their innovative curriculum on storytelling in medicine, while Beth Hawkins and her team received an honorable mention for their research on a student-run food pantry's outcomes. Other notable contributions included discussions on integrating folk illness into healthcare education and developing ethical strategies for student-based community work.

Drs. Molldrem and Crooks discuss the relationship of cultural studies, activism, and HIV/AIDS archives in a conversation about Dr. Marika Cifor’s book Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS (2022). Their dialogue was part of a dossier on Viral Cultures published in Feminist Formations. Read the dialogue here.

The Open Peer Commentary is titled “For Analytics Beyond “Personhood,” Bioethics Should Look Toward Science and Technology Studies (STS).” It responded to Dr. Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby’s article “The End of Personhood.”

Ethical Translational Science by Institute for Translational Sciences Research Ethics Team published work in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications