[citation needed] It is partnered with the Hastings Center to sponsor visiting Yale/Hastings Bioethics scholars.

It also hosts the Sherwin Nuland international Summer Bioethics Institute (SBI).

[1] Director Stephen Latham was contacted by a Yale neuroscience team led by Nenad Sestan that had restored metabolic and cellular function in pig brains ex vivo.

[2] The YICB ultimately agreed that Sestan's team had violated no ethical standards.

[3] Latham recommended that guidelines regarding such practices should be established as similar experiments are carried out.