Annual Bioethics Conference

The 2021 Annual Bioethics Conference took place online June 9-11 and explored the potential of biotechnology to drive and shape the future of clinical care and research.

The practice of medicine over the course of the last fifty years has changed dramatically. Novel technological developments will continue to generate new discoveries, therapies, and patient outcomes. Recent advances in intertwined areas, such as stem cell-based bioengineering, organoid technology, low-cost personal genome sequencing, machine learning, and human genome editing have the potential to create more effective, personalized medical treatments. But as we progress toward this biotechnologically-driven medical future, we must consider how ethical values can shape these advancements and vice versa. This online conference examined how ethics interacts with biotechnology in medicine, and consider multiple approaches to how we might ensure that biotechnology continues to evolve ethically and for the benefit of all.

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Public Bioethics Forum:
Recent Progress in iPS Cell Research and Application
Nobel Laureate Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD

Nobel Laureate Shinya Yamanaka launched ABC with the public lecture "Recent Progress in iPS Cell Research and Application."
Dr.Yamanaka's lecture took place on June 9, 2021.
This lecture is included with the annual conference registration.

PAST ANNUAL BIOETHICS CONFERENCES
2019: Controlling Death: The policies, practices, and ethics of choosing when we die
2018: Defining Death: Organ transplantation and the 50-year legacy of the Harvard report on "brain death"
2017: The Ethics of "Making Babies"
2016: Social Justice and Ethics Committees in Health Care