September 15, 2017
The Harvard GSAS Science Policy Group is pleased to host a student-faculty chat series called "Ethics, History & Policy Implications of Gene Editing, Part I: Ethics of Gene Editing"
WHEN: Wednesday, September 20th from 3-4:00pm
WHERE: TMEC 334 at Harvard Medical School
Limited to the first 20 students, sign-up here: https://goo.gl/forms/XScBXLjR7CWUg0OW2
Jeantine Lunshof is a bioethicist working in the Church lab at Harvard Medical School, Department of Genetics. She is also an Assistant Professor at the Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands. She pursues a research program on systems biology-based concepts of health and disease and on normative models for genomic sciences and biological engineering. She is ethics consultant with the Personal Genome Project since 2006, and with the past and the current Center for Excellence in Genomic Science: Causal Consequences of Variation (CCV, 2010-2015), and Center for Genomically Engineered Organs (CGEO, 2015-present) at Harvard Medical School. In 2006, she developed the innovative model of Open Consent that forms the normative backbone of the Personal Genome Project. Jeantine has been Ethics Advisory Board Member for two large European Commission-funded research consortia, she is Affiliate Member of the NIH Pharmacogenomics Research Network, and she serves on a number of editorial boards.
For more information, read this article: https://www.statnews.com/2017/02/23/bioethics-harvard-george-church/
Snacks will be served
Contact Maddy Jennewein (mjennewein@g.harvard.edu) with any questions.