Bioethics/Health Law

Click here to register for this free event. Insoo Hyun and Dean George Q. Daley will discuss the scientific and ethical challenges surrounding stem cell-based clinical trials and attempts at medical innovation using patients' own stem cells. How are the...

Doors open at 5:00 p.m. This event is offered free of charge, but registration is required: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-immortal-life-of-henrietta-lacks-hela-… Join us for a discussion on informed...

Presented by the Program on Science, Technology & Society OPENING PANEL Wednesday, April 26 (Emerson Hall, Room 105) Open to the public - no registration required. 5:00-6:30 Opening Panel: Anthony Appiah (NYU), George Church (HMS), Glenn Cohen (HLS)...

Participation is free of charge. Promising advances in stem cell research have been accompanied by the lack of clear regulatory frameworks leading to the situation then most of it is still in petri dishes or in early phase clinical trials. The difficult...

This event is free and open to the public. Learn more and register at: http://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events Biosimilars are a type of biological product approved by FDA on the basis of being highly similar to an already approved biological reference...

Description For over 35 years, the “14-Day Rule,” prohibiting in vitro experimentation on embryos beyond 14 days, has stood as an ethical line in the sand for embryo research around the world. Throughout the arc of the rule’s existence it has not been...

2016 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Open House follows this session in the HLS Pub, 1st floor, Wasserstein Hall. Far too many people across the country are left dead, injured, or traumatized by community violence. Communities can be safer when neuroscience...

Precision Medicine 2016 Registration is required: Register via Eventbrite (Students and postdocs: email precisionmedicine@hms.harvard.edu for discount)

Cell Symposia Keynote addresses by: Shinya Yamanaka and Rudolf Jaenisch In 2006, Shinya Yamanaka and Kazutoshi Takahashi reported the Nobel Prize winning discovery of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) in Cell. In the ten years that have passed since...

DFCI Ethics Grand Rounds Guest speakers: Holly Fernandez Lynch, J.D., M.Bioethics Executive Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, Harvard Law School Faculty, Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics Emily...