ASHBi Bioethics-Biology Fusion Workshop: Ethics of Early Developmental Research

We are pleased to announce that the ASHBi Bioethics-Biology Fusion Workshop (Ethics of Early Developmental Research) will be held online on November 12, 2021.

This workshop will cover the latest topics in early developmental research (human embryo/embryo model research, brain organoid, and human-animal chimera research), which has been progressing rapidly in recent years, from the perspective of science and ethics. We hope to have a lively discussion with the speakers and participants of this workshop.

If you are interested in this workshop, please join us.

Program

Eligibility

Researchers and university students

Schedule

15:00	Opening Remarks
15:10	Naomi Moris (Francis Crick Institute, UK) “Embryo-like models: using self-organising gastruloids to understand human development”
15:50	Sarah Chan (Edinburgh University, UK) “Changing the rules on reproductive research?”
16:30	David Archard (Queen’s University Belfast, UK / Nuffield Council on Bioethics, UK) “The 14-day rule: Ethics and policy”
17:10	Julian Savulescu (Oxford University, UK) “Moral status and the ethics of brain organoid/chimera research”
17:50	Closing Remarks

Registration

Pre-registered participants only

[IMPORTANT] Participants shall not disclose any confidential information to others since unpublished data may appear in the presentations.

We will send the Zoom link approximately one week prior to the Workshop.

Host

Tsutomu Sawai, Go Okui, and Cantas Alev (ASHBi, Kyoto University)

Contact

Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology (WPI-ASHBi)
ashbi-event [at] mail2.adm.kyoto-u.ac.jp
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