This event is produced by the Progress Educational Trust (PET) in partnership with Cambridge Reproduction, with additional sponsorship from the Anne McLaren Memorial Trust Fund and the Association of Reproductive and Clinical Scientists.
Speakers include:
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Professor Kathy Niakan (Chair of Cambridge Reproduction, Director of the Centre for Trophoblast Research, and leader of the first research that involved editing the genomes of human embryos in order to study the function of a gene)
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Katherine Littler (Co-Lead of the World Health Organisation's Global Health Ethics and Governance Unit)
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Professor Henry Greely (Director of Stanford University's Centre for Law and the Biosciences, and author of books including CRISPR People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans)
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Professor Wolf Reik (Founding Director of the Cambridge Institute of Science at Altos Labs, and Principal Investigator at the Babraham Institute)
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Nick Meade (Joint Interim Chief Executive, and Director of Policy, at Genetic Alliance UK)
The event will be chaired jointly by:
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Professor Robin Lovell-Badge (Chair of Trustees at PET, and Chair of the Planning Committee for the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing)
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Sarah Norcross (Director of PET)
Find out more: https://www.progress.org.uk/editing