 | Neuroscience advisors named at UPenn
Sept. 24, 2009 – On Sept. 18, the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Neuroscience & Society, a cross-disciplinary center focused on understanding and communicating the impact of neuroscience on society, named its initial board of advisors. |
| University of Pennsylvania will host a Neuroscience Boot Camp in August 2010. | |
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The board includes Philip Campbell, the editor-in-chief of
Nature, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s chief medical correspondent and Alan Leshner, the chief executive officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
“We are delighted to announce the formation of the Center for Neuroscience & Society Advisory Board,” Martha Farah, director of the Center and a cognitive neuroscientist who holds the Walter H. Annenberg Professorship in Natural Sciences at Penn, said in a press release. “This distinguished group of advisors will help guide us toward the most effective use of our faculty and resources, as we analyze the role of neuroscience in society and communicate our findings to policy makers and the public.”
The Center confronts the social, legal and ethical implications of increasingly rapid advances in neuroscience and draws faculty from Penn’s schools of Arts and Sciences, Medicine, Law and Engineering and Applied Science.
In August 2010 the Center will host a
Neuroscience Boot Camp for professionals and graduate students in law, ethics, education and other fields.
