Talks

Light refreshments will be served at 6:30. Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby, Ph.D., is the Cullen Professor of Medical Ethics and Associate Director of the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine. She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy, with a specialization in bioethics, from Michigan State University.

Presenter: Marco Picchio, PhD, Department of Bioethics, NIH Clinical Center Discussant: Douglas MacKay, PhD, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Faculty, Center For Bioethics, UNC Lecture Summary: Randomized controlled trials are the gold standard for assessing medical interventions. In contrast, randomized controlled trials are rarely used to assess social and...

Lunch will be provided for in-person attendees.   Neurodevelopmental diseases (NDDs) are notoriously difficult to treat because clinical symptoms stem from developmental processes that begin before birth. Prenatal gene editing could fill the treatment gap for NDDS by targeting and permanently correcting the genetic variants that underlie these pathogenic developmental...

“When Law, Ethics & Medicine Collide: Physician Duties When Law Restricts Reproductive Health Care” is sponsored by: Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences. University of Minnesota

Refreshments will be served. Please register to attend. https://go.unc.edu/meslin-elsi   Sponsored by: UNC Center for Bioethics ELSI@UNC

We invite you to join us for the lecture in person. Lunch will be served! Kindly RSVP to help us organize better. We look forward to welcoming Carolyn M. Mazure in March 2025 for the 47th Merrimon Lecture. Check back for more details. In the meantime, save the date! About...

By now society has become familiar with the promised benefits and potential pitfalls of the artificial intelligence revolution. Not since the early years of genetic engineering has a technology captured our imagination and fears so quickly.  But AI has done something else – it has dragged bioethics into unfamiliar territory:...

6th in the Carolina Seminar Series, “SCIENCE MEETS SOCIETY AT THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN PRECISION MEDICINE AND JUSTICE, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION” Marginalized racial and ethnic communities have been the focus of increased attention by precision medicine researchers seeking to foster justice and promote health equity in clinical genomics. Low education level...

5th in the Carolina Seminar Series, “Science meets society at the intersection between precision medicine and justice, equity, and inclusion” Despite comprising about 27% of the US population, the disability community has remained largely absent from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts in precision medicine and genomics research. Research suggests...

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Ethics Research, Mayo Clinic   Advancing understanding of the human virome (all viruses that live in and on us) is a national scientific priority. Commensal relationships with viruses prompt questions of what it means to be human and healthy, shifting with new understandings of our complex...