Dr Robert holds the Lincoln Chair in Ethics and serves as Senior Ethics Advisor to the Provost at Arizona State University. He is also Director of ASU's Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, and Dean's Distinguished Professor in the Life Sciences.
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His teaching and research are at the intersection of bioethics and philosophy of biology. His scholarship currently focuses on the justification of research in the so-called translational pipeline from bench to bedside, and his research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the James S. McDonnell Foundation, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
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