{"id":221290,"date":"2025-09-12T16:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/221290\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T16:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:19:11","slug":"meet-the-2025-26-sadler-scholars-and-cera-fellows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/221290\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the 2025-26 Sadler Scholars and CERA Fellows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tHastings Center News\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Hastings Center for Bioethics announces the 2025-26 Sadler Scholars, advanced doctoral students and early-career bioethics researchers selected through a competitive application process. The Sadler Scholars initiative provides mentoring, workshops, opportunities for feedback on works in progress, and other activities that support professional development and community building. All activities are remote.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the new Sadler Scholars are also CERA Fellows \u2014 their research focuses on the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of human genomics. The Hastings Center is delighted to collaborate with the <a href=\"https:\/\/elsihub.org\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center for ELSI Research and Analysis (CERA)<\/a> to offer additional professional opportunities to Sadler Scholars who are ELSI researchers.<\/p>\n<p>The new Sadler Scholars-CERA Fellows are:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Blessing Adewuyi (top, left), a doctoral candidate in religion at the University of Georgia<\/li>\n<li>Victor Ekuta (top, right), a resident in neurology at Morehouse School of Medicine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sadler Scholars returning for a special opportunity for project-focused mentorship are:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Asmita\u00a0Aasaavari (bottom, center), a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Connecticut<\/li>\n<li>Calvin Bradley, Jr. (bottom, left), Director of Education in the Department of Patient Counseling at Virginia Commonwealth University<\/li>\n<li>Donald Carter (bottom, right), Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Professionalism at Mercer University School of Medicine<\/li>\n<li>Kimberlyn Ellis (top, center), a doctoral candidate in human genetics at the Vanderbilt Genetics Institute and the inaugural CERA Fellow in 2024-25.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehastingscenter.org\/team\/erik-parens-ph-d\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Erik Parens<\/a>, a senior research scholar at The Hastings Center, has joined the Sadler Scholars\u2019 roster of mentors, with special responsibility for mentoring the CERA Fellows.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Sadler Scholars program was launched in 2021 by senior research scholar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehastingscenter.org\/team\/nancy-berlinger-ph-d\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nancy Berlinger<\/a>. \u201cWhat began as a pandemic pivot at a time when our residential visiting scholar program was suspended has becoming a thriving, mutually supportive community of next-generation bioethics researchers and committed mentors,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Stipends for new Sadler Scholars are provided by The Hastings Center through the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehastingscenter.org%2Fnews%2Fsadler-fund-to-support-socially-just-health-policy%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cchibbaroj%40thehastingscenter.org%7C4a851c3588a847e4f46708dc8a355648%7C8a1328e2ae0549cea3dce8136ea59b27%7C0%7C0%7C638537208898033631%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=kDyzqN7ZKI9Hoz%2Fraye44WARFtLYioIryr4D%2B8PgYWo%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Blair and Georgia Sadler Fund for Socially Just Health Policy<\/a>. The Sadler Fund also supports\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehastingscenter.org%2Fdiversity-equity-and-inclusion-at-the-hastings-center%2Fsadler-scholars%2Fconsultants%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cchibbaroj%40thehastingscenter.org%7C4a851c3588a847e4f46708dc8a355648%7C8a1328e2ae0549cea3dce8136ea59b27%7C0%7C0%7C638537208898043926%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=lLiTMmV1tGhXRG1CtW4%2BHcgQ%2F%2Fj7abPvhJzZUG0MNUM%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">expert advisors<\/a>\u00a0to this initiative, who serve as mentors.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the new Sadler Scholars, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehastingscenter.org\/bioethics-careers-education\/students-and-visiting-scholars\/sadler-scholars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">program webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hastings Center News The Hastings Center for Bioethics announces the 2025-26 Sadler Scholars, advanced doctoral students and early-career&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":221291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[815,159,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-221290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-genetics","8":"tag-genetics","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115192238196859781","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}