Multiple Institute Faculty Selected for Nexus Awards to Pursue Interdisciplinary Projects
Multiple projects involving faculty at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics are among the 28 convening, research, and teaching endeavors based at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C., have been selected to receive funding from the university’s Nexus Awards Program over the next year.
The projects span every academic division of the university and include more than 100 scholars exploring a range of topics, including including AI in transportation, rare disease therapies, research in art history, and public-private-university partnerships for American space leadership.
The selected projects involving Berman Institute faculty are:
- Clinical, Ethical, Economic, and Public Health Dimensions of Psychedelic Policy (with Jeffrey Kahn and Mario Macis);
- Developing Ethics Guidance to Support Pregnant Women’s Access to Non-Pharmacological Pain Management in Research and Practice (with Stephanie Morain and Ruth Faden);
- The Price of Hope: Ethics, Economics, and Policy for Rare Disease Therapy; (with Jeffrey Kahn, Mario Macis and Anna Mastroianni).
This is the fourth round of funding distributed via the Nexus Awards, a program designed to support research, teaching, and event programming at the Hopkins Bloomberg Center, which opened in the fall of 2023. Funding for award recipients begins July 1.
“In the nearly three years since we opened the doors to our Hopkins Bloomberg Center, our 118 Nexus awardees have been instrumental to realizing its founding aspirations as a hub for interdisciplinary convenings, groundbreaking cross-divisional research, and exemplary teaching,” said Ron Daniels, president of Johns Hopkins University.
Multiple Berman Institute faculty have been selected for Nexus Awards in recent years, including five projects led by or involving Berman Institute faculty in 2024 and four projects in 2025.