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Research Ethics Forum: Human Genome-Editing Research: Possibilities and Ethical Questions

April 19, 2021 : 12:00pm - 1:00pm PDT

Online Webinar

Event Details

Learning Objectives: At the end of this forum you will be able to: Clarify when genetic modification may be a responsible option for therapy Apply ethical criteria to decide when to proceed with first-in-human trials Recognize the role of moral intuitions in clinical research and how to move beyond them Speaker:Jeantine Lunshof, PhD Dr. Lunshof is a philosopher and ethicist with the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard. Lecturer, Harvard Center for Bioethics. Assistant Professor, University of Groningen Medical Center, The Netherlands.  <a href="https://wyss.harvard.edu/team/research-scientists-engineers/jeantine-lunshof/">https://wyss.harvard.edu/team/...</a>

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