Faculty receive $1M NIH grant

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.