Sage Bionetworks in the news

Sage Bionetworks and Stephen Friend have recently been profiled in Science magazine and in the Seattle Times Sunday magazine.  Jocelyn Kaiser’s Science article reviews the history of the Sage Bionetworks initiative and has a good summary of many of the pilot projects that are underway. There are comments from many of the leaders in genomics [...]

Young Investigator Awards

Sage Bionetworks is offering 10 travel awards for outstanding young investigators to attend and participate in the 2012 Commons Congress. The awards will cover economy airfare and hotel accommodation and will be awarded on a competitive basis. This is a unique opportunity for grad students, post-docs or early-stage investigators to learn, share and network. If [...]

WeConsent

John Wilbanks has created a website called WeConsent for the alpha testing of the portable legal consent tools he has developed.  The site includes several presentations on the background of and strategy for directly engaging the public in medical research.  These tools will be an important component of the first session of the 3rd Commons [...]

Draft Program

A draft agenda for the 3rd Commons Congress has been posted and will be updated as more information becomes available.  Please contact info@sagebase.org with any questions or suggestions.

2012 Commons Congress

The 2012 Sage Bionetworks Commons Congress will be held on Friday April 20 – Saturday April 21, 2012. It will be held at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco and program details will be available shortly.         Presentations and video recordings of the 2011 Commons Congress platform presentations are available on the Sage [...]