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Pilar Ossorio is a Professor of Law and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and serves as the Ethics Scholar-in-Residence and Bioethics Program lead at the Morgridge Institute for Research. She co-directs the Law and Neuroscience Program and previously held leadership roles at the American Medical Association's Institute for Ethics and the federal government's Ethical, Legal and Social Implications program for Human Genomics.
Her educational background includes:
- Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology and B.S. in Biology from Stanford University (1990, 1983)
- Post Doctoral Fellowship at Yale University School of Medicine (1990–1993)
- J.D. from University of California School of Law (1997)
Dr. Ossorio's research focuses on critical intersections of law and bioethics, particularly governance of large-scale biosciences, protections for research participants, data sharing policies, ethical challenges of 'big data' science, and the complex role of race in biomedical research. Her work addresses real-world tensions between scientific advancement and ethical safeguards in genomics, digital health, and prenatal substance exposure contexts.
She leads multiple NIH-funded initiatives including genomic data release policy analysis and the Infants with Prenatal Substance Exposure (IPSE) law project, which produced a comprehensive 50-state legal framework analysis. As Bioethics Program lead, she directs the Research Ethics Consultation Service (RECS) and fosters interdisciplinary collaboration through ethics journal clubs, campus symposia, and K-12 outreach programs like the Ethics Cartooning Competition.
Dr. Ossorio actively serves on federal and international science policy advisory committees and has developed institutional resources including the Benchside Ethics Consult Service to support researchers navigating complex ethical dilemmas in laboratory science and computational research.
