Assistant Professor Diane Tober, PhD, of the Institute for Health & Aging, has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant to compare egg donation in the United States and Spain. Her project, a collaboration with researchers at the University of Distance Education and from Complutense University (both in Madrid), explores the effects of socio-cultural context on the governance of human bio-material donation and sale by focusing on one area of bio-material donation – compensated donation of human eggs. The purpose of the project is to understand how different bio-material markets operate within distinct cultural and regulatory environments and intersect with egg donors’ decisions and experiences.
In addition, Dr. Tober is the author of a new book, Romancing the Sperm: Shifting Biopolitics and the Making of Modern Families, to be released in November, 2018, from Rutgers University Press. (Now available for pre-order.)