Ethics and Engineering Forum on Genes happening on March 3rd at 11 AM in Petite Institute Room 1128.

This year's George H. and Faye C. Sparks Forum on Ethics and Engineering is coming up again and will be a talk by Kenneth Oye, the Director of the MIT Program on Emerging Technologies, titled “Somatic Cell Gene Therapy, Germline Gene Therapy, and Gene Drives: Ethical, Legal, and Economic Challenges.” (That is certainly a mouthful of a title.)

This year's forum is set up as a follow up to an international summit meeting on biotech and ethics that took place in Atlanta last spring.

The flyer for the event can be found here and have more details on the location and time.

I posted about the forum last year and was pleasantly surprised at the number of people that came out. As a member of the Sparks family it is great to see people who are interesting in the challenges will we be facing in the future and taking the time to start learning about them now. We would love to see more of you all at this one and at the reception afterwards.