Posted on Sep 24, 2004

Martin
Strosberg, research professor of political science,
is principal investigator for a $1 million National Institutes of Health training
grant titled “E-Education in Research Ethics: Central and Eastern
Europe.” Robert Baker,
professor of philosophy, will serve as faculty member and associate program
director along with Prof. Wayne Shelton of Albany
Medical College. Co-principal investigator is Eugenijus Gefenas of the University
of Vilnius, a former Fulbright Fellow to Union College. The purpose of the grant
is to improve the protection of human subjects in clinical drug trials in Eastern Europe
by training faculty from Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Russia, and Hungary to use the e-education techniques to educate researchers
about their ethical responsibilities to research subjects.