A former senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, Moreno was the editor of Science Progress, an online journal focusing on progressive science and technology policy. He was co-host of Making the Call, an Endeavor Content podcast. Academic work Moreno has published more than a thousand papers, articles, reviews and op-eds. His writings have been translated into German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Turkish and Romanian. Moreno frequently contributes to such publications as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Nature, Slate, Foreign Affairs, The Hill, Axios, The Huffington Post and Psychology Today. His articles and essays extensively cover contemporary topics in bioethics, including neuroscience, reproductive technologies, embryonic stem cell research, the ethics of human experiments, national security, the politics of bioethics, and the global politics of Covid-19 vaccine development and dissemination. He has done original research on the creation of the Nuremberg code, the development of the Helsinki Declaration, and the history of psychedelics. Along with the historian Ulf Schmidt he has done archival work on medical ethics in the Eastern European states during the Cold War. His recent work on neuroethics and national security includes his Defense Department-funded project on AI-enabled neurotechnologies and warfighters and on Cold War medical science under a grant from the European Research Council. His most recent books are Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die: Bioethics and the Transformation of Healthcare in America, co-authored with former Penn president Amy Gutmann, and The Brain in Context: A Pragmatic Guide to Neuroscience, written with neuroscientist Jay Schulkin. The former book was translated into Korean and published by Humanitas Publishing Co. in 2021, and the latter was translated into Japanese and published by Newton Press in 2021. Currently he is an investigator on a $1.1 million Minerva Research Initiative project on artificial intelligence and warfighters, and senior consultant to a six-year, 10 million-euro project on cold war medical science on both sides of the iron curtain, funded by the European Research Council. He has written on the bioethical implications of the pandemic and the Ukraine war for the rules-based international order. Awards and honors Describing him as "one of the world's foremost experts in bioethics and politics and bioethics in national security", the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities awarded him its 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest honor of this Society, which recognizes a "distinguished individual" for excellence in bioethics and