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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Françoise Baylis\, CM\, ONS\, PhD\, FRSC\, FCAHS\, FIS
 C\n	Distinguished Research Professor Emerita\,\n	Dalhousie University\n\nWed
 nesday\, March 22\, 4:30 to 5:30 PM\n\nJoin the meeting here\n\nIn the Spr
 ing of 2015\, duelling commentaries on the potential harms and benefits of
  heritable human genome editing were published in Nature and Science. Shor
 tly thereafter\, a science paper detailing the genetic modification of non
 -viable human embryos was published in Protein and Cell. Following on this
 \, the First International Summit on Human Gene Editing was held in Decemb
 er 2015. Both somatic and germline genetic modification were on the agenda
 . Professor Baylis was a member of the Organizing Committee for this Summi
 t. The Third International Summit will be held in March 2023. Coming on th
 e heels of this Summit\, this Medical Grand Rounds presentation will provi
 de a summary overview of the ethical and policy issues spanning this appro
 ximate eight-year period (2015-2023) through the lens of three successive 
 international meetings\, with particular attention to the Closing Statemen
 t of the 2023 Summit.\n\n\n
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SUMMARY:Human Genome Editing: From the First to the Third International Sum
 mit
URL:/deptmedicine/channels/event/human-genome-editing-
 first-third-international-summit-346471
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