Bioethics Seminar Series: Eric Juengst

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Eric Juengst, a professor of Social Medicine and Bioethics and director of the UNC Center for Bioethics at the at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, will present a talk entitled "Incidental Enhancements: The Challenge of Prevention for Human Gene Editing Governance." Juengst will discuss the human gene editing research ethical boundary between developing new treatments for disease and developing ways to enhance human traits for social purposes. This talk is particularly timely in light of recent news about the birth of two babies in China who were gene edited as embryos to carry a rare mutation that seems to confer resistance to HIV infection.

This talk is sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics.