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| Date: | 13.02.2017 to 17.02.2017 |
| Location: | Erlangen Deutschland |
| Keywords: | Embryo research - Genetic testing/counselling - Genetic research/engineering - Genome analysis - Gene therapy |
| Details: | The international Winter School “Between moral hazard and legal uncertainty. Ethical, legal and societal challenges of gene editing” organized by the Chair of Systematic Theology II (Ethics) of the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) and funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) seeks to develop key points for an ethically responsible handling of the application of gene-editing technologies particularly on humans. In the course of the Winter School following issues should be addressed in the debate: • Which thresholds can be defined on the basis of which criteria in order to evaluate the possible use, the expected acceptance and the possible consequences of gene-editing technologies like CRISPR/Cas9 in an anticipating way from an ethical and legal perspective? • Are the current legal regulations sufficient for a safe handling of gene-editing technologies? • Which political, legal and medial factors have influence on the public and scientific perception gene-editing technologies? • Which moral background assumptions and argumentation patterns underlie different positions within the public-medial and scientific-ethical debate? • What differences can be detected between the debates in Germany and other countries (especially Great Britain) and what role do they play for the judgement formation process? • In how far is it still possible to make a precise distinction between somatic and germ line cells in light of new techniques (IPS, differentiation of gametes from iPSC) and scientific insights on cell differentiation? • Which legal and ethical consequences emerge from the possible application of gene-editing technologies on humans for the status of the human embryo respectively for a possible “status of the human germline”? • Is there a difference between slippery-slope and ex-ante scenarios and what consequences could be drawn from this differentiation in order to set up governance frames? • Which political questions are affected and how can responsible governance models for the regulation of gene-editing technologies respectively this biomedical field be found? There are still a few places available for young scientists based in Germany and Great Britain with an university degree or PhD in medicine, biology, politics, philosophy, theology, sociology and law. The Winter School offers the opportunity for an intense interdisciplinary mutual discussion and an scientific exchange with renowned experts, amongst others Prof. Dr. Peter Dabrock (Chair of the German Ethics Council), Prof. Dr. Dieter Birnbacher (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf), Dr. Jeantine Lunshof (University of Groningen and Harvard Medical School), Prof. Dr. Stephan Rixen (University of Bayreuth). Admission is free, travel expenses as well as accommodation will be covered by the organizers. The conference and presentation language is depending on applications. Interested young scientists are invited to send a scientific abstract in English (ca. 300 words), an academic biography and a publication list by e-mail to hannah.schickl@fau.de latest by November 15th 2016. The scientific abstract has to focus on the topic of the Winter School and the issues raised under the view of the scientific discipline of the applicant. The abstract will be the criterion for the evaluation process and is supposed to be basis for the manuscript which has to be presented during the Winter School and which will be published consecutively. |
| Contact: | Hannah Schickl Address: Lehrstuhl für Systematische Theologie II (Ethik) Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Kochstraße 6 91054 Erlangen Tel: +49 (0)9131 / 8526237 Fax: +49 (0)9131 / 8526020 Email: hannah.schickl@fau.de |
| Webpage: | http://www.ethik.theologie.uni-erlangen.de/de/lehrstuhl/Call_GeneEditing_Erlangen.pdf |
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