DOE Human Genome Program Contractor-Grantee Workshop VIII
February 27-March 2, 2000  Santa Fe, NM

159. Continuing Interest in the Legal, Ethical and Social Implications of Genome Research*

REV. William E. Nebo Community Member of the ELSI Research Planning and Evaluation Group, Member of the Human Subjects Working Group of the DOE, Member of the I.R.B of L.L.N.L., Sr. Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Livermore, CA, 2020

5th St., Livermore, CA 94550

bnebo@aol.com

For the past ten years the Department of Energy's efforts in genome research have invested $20 million in the study of the ethical, legal, and social implications of genome research (ELSI). In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the ELSI programs of both the DOE and the National Institutes of Health, these two agencies established the ELSI Research Program and Evaluation Group (ERPEG)in 1997. The final report of ERPEG is now being assembled and its recommendations for further ELSI work are ready for discussion. Rev. William E. Nebo, a DOE community representative to ERPEG, will give his perspectives on the importance of continued DOE interest in ELSI research and on the content of the ERPEG report.