Events

Presented by Karandeep Singh, MD, MMSc

The promise of microbial and molecular engineering to address urgent environmental challenges, such as pollutant remediation, remains limited by safety concerns and lack of efficacy when scaled from the lab to the field. In this lecture, Yonatan Chemla, Ph.D., K99 … Read More

PGTME invites all junior scholars (broadly construed) who study ethical issues in pediatric gene therapy to submit an abstract for or register to attend this year's Early Career Scholars Meeting. Suggested topics include: 1) genetic interventions; 2) drug development, evidence … Read More

Bioethics and the health humanities are evolving fields, in conversation with medical and social changes. While clinicians, academics, and other healthcare professionals continue to grapple with key ethical questions, such as end-of-life conflicts, ethical research design, and health disparities, the … Read More

Presented by Antonia Chiesa, MD and Megan Cook, LCSW Ethics Grand Rounds represents a dynamic initiative, proudly supported by the Center for Bioethics and Humanities and run by the Clinical Ethics Education Council. Each session is crafted to showcase compelling … Read More

Pediatric Ethics Grand Rounds (PEGR) creates space for thoughtful conversation about the ethical questions that arise in caring for children and families. Led by the clinical ethics team at Children’s Hospital Colorado, each session brings together diverse perspectives to examine … Read More

Biotechnology is a complex, time-consuming and expensive discipline, and even more so when we consider discovery or deployment of biotechnology at environmental scales. We need to deploy the right tools in the right place, at the right time and the … Read More

Building forth on the Ethics Education Program of UNESCO, this workshop is designed to enhance the educational skills and abilities of ethics teachers. We explicitly invite academics who soon will start, or have just started, teaching ethics. However, experience has … Read More

Co-hosted by the NYU Langone Health Section of Medical Ethics and Transplant Institute. Join us in person or virtually this October! The 2026 NYU Transplant Ethics and Policy Conference convenes leading voices across clinical care, research, law, and patient advocacy … Read More

Revolutionary advances in cell engineering and synthetic biology offer enormous potential benefits, while raising vexing ethical and policy issues. A team at the University of Minnesota has developed SpudCell — the first synthetic cell that can grow and reproduce, built … Read More

The 1986 Coordinated Framework for the Regulation of Biotechnology, revised in 1992 and 2017, promulgated the tenet that organisms altered with recombinant DNA follow the same laws of physics, chemistry, and biology, with no unique risks from rDNA alone. The … Read More

Join us November 8 through 10, 2026, in beautiful Charlottesville, Virginia for our 13th annual Healthcare Ethics and Moral Distress Consultation Intensive Training Seminar. Nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the grounds and gardens of the University … Read More