Projects

The Wagner Lab is engaged in the emerging field of anthroengineering and ELSI (Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications) research. The Wagner Lab strives to be radically collaborative and, in that spirit, is always eager to explore new collaborations with scholars and professionals in engineering, anthropology, law, public policy, bioethics, human genetics, medicine, information science and technology, science and technology studies, and related disciplines.

 

  • Consumer Protections for Genomics & Precision Health

Funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)

  • ELSI of Human Faces (Policies for Facial Analytics)

Launched with initial funding by the National Institutes of Health Office of the Director (OD) and National Institutes of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)

  • Disruptive Innovations for Digital Health 

Intended to modernize and transform data practices and governance

  • Ethics of Synthetic Data and AI

Funded in part by the Rock Ethics Institute and by the National Institutes of Health Office of the Director (OD) and National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)

  • Bioethical, Legal, and Anthropological Study of Technologies (BLAST)

Funded by the National Institutes of Health Office of the Director (OD) and the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)

  • Boosting Bioethics & Bioprinting 

Funded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)

  • Brain Behavior Quantification and Synchronization 

Funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) for contributions to the ELSI Team of the Data Coordination and Artificial Intelligence Center

  • Human Virome Project

Funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) for contributions to the ELSI Core of the Human Virome Characterization Center for the Oral-Gut-Brain Axis

 

Additional Pilot Projects:
  • Ethical, social and legal issues regarding the advancement of open-access multi-omics data regarding Hispanic/Latinx and Black populations: Perspectives from Penn State students (funded by the Social Science Research Institute)
  • Addressing Diverse ELSI Perspectives to Advance Equitable Multi-Omics Research (funded in part by the Center for Human Evolution and Diversity)
  • Understanding gaps and opportunities in neuroscience an neurotechnology (funded by the Rock Ethics Institute)
  • Current and future physicians’ knowledge, attitudes, and perspectives on the adoption of AI in clinical workflow (funded by the Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute)