Protecting Participants in Genomic Research: Understanding the "Web of Protections" Afforded by Federal and State Law

Leslie E Wolf¹, Catherine M Hammack¹, Erin Fuse Brown¹+2

• ¹Leslie E. Wolf, J.D., M.P.H., is a Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Law at Georgia State University College of Law in Atlanta, Georgia and Director of the GSU Center for Law, Health & Society. Catherine M. Hammack, J.D., M.A., is an Associate in Health Policy and a member of the core faculty of the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. Erin Fuse Brown, J.D., M.P.H., is an Associate Professor of Law at the Georgia State University College of Law in Atlanta, Georgia. Kathleen M. Brelsford, M.A., Ph.D., M.P.H., is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and a member of the core faculty of the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. Laura M. Beskow, M.P.H., Ph.D. is a Professor of Health Policy and the Anne Geddes Stahlman Chair in Medical Ethics in the Center for Biomedical Ethics & Society at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.