Mark Yarborough, PhD

Mark Yarborough, Ph.D., joined the UC Davis faculty in March, 2010. He holds the Dean’s Professorship in Bioethics, directs the Clinical Research Ethics Program of the Clinical and Translational Science Center, and is on the faculty of the Bioethics Program.

He investigates and publishes about various dimensions of trustworthy research practices, including under which circumstances the research community deserves the public’s trust and whether those circumstances routinely obtain. Another area of his current work relates to the ethical implications of quality concerns in biomedical research identified by the field of meta-research, especially concerns related to preclinical research and their ethical consequences for early clinical trials.

Since coming to UC Davis, Dr. Yarborough has helped champion the UC Davis Ethics Commons and served as the lead Principal Investigator for the UC North Bioethics Collaboratory, which promoted a range of bioethics activities among the UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz, and UCSF campuses. Most recently, he was appointed as a Visiting Fellow at the QUEST(Quality, Ethics, Open Science, Translation) Center for Transforming Biomedical Research at the Berlin Institute of Health in Berlin, Germany.