Disinformation, trust, & AI event highlights; gene therapy project; Bioethics Founders' award
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September 19, 2024
Disinformation, Trust, & the Role of AI: Highlights of Our Event Experts call for education, "pre-bunking", and debunking.
Last week, Hastings Center President Vardit Ravitsky moderated a discussion with experts Reed Tuckson and Timothy Caulfield on disinformation, trust, and the role of AI, focusing on current and future threats to health and democracy. All agreed that combatting these threats was one of the greatest challenges of our time, but they were also hopeful that we could successfully meet the challenge. A key is a multipronged approach that involves education, “pre-bunking”, and debunking. Read more and watch the event—The Daniel Callahan Annual Lecture.
Gene Therapies: Raising Hopes and Ethical, Policy Challenges Major NIH-funded project launched.
New gene therapies are raising hopes for patients with rare disorders, cancers, and neurological diseases. But there are ethical and policy challenges on the path from research to the clinic. What is sufficient evidence of safety and effectiveness to justify approval of a gene therapy? How can these therapies be made accessible and affordable to patients? These questions are the focus of a new three-year project, funded for nearly $1.5 million by the National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health. Hastings Center senior research scholar Karen J. Maschke is co-PI. Read more.
Allen Buchanan, Bernard Lo Receive 2024 Bioethics Founders' Award Awards ceremony and more at ASBH annual meeting.
Allen E. Buchanan and Bernard Lo have been named recipients of the 2024 Bioethics Founders’ Award. This award, given by The Hastings Center, recognizes individuals from around the world who have made substantial, sustained contributions to bioethics in ways that have advanced thinking and practice in medicine, the life sciences, and public policy. Hastings Center President Vardit Ravitsky is presenting the awards today at a ceremony at the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) annual conference in St. Louis. Read more.
Bioethics: A Path Forward. Hastings Center President Vardit Ravitsky will speak at the annual Thomas P. Duffy Memorial Lecture in Medical Ethics at the Yale School of Medicine. October 15.
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