❓While this approach could address the severe shortage of donor organs, it also raises profound ethical and policy challenges.
We look forward to a thought-provoking discussion on the ethical, social, and policy implications of moving xenotransplantation from research into clinical practice.
07.10.2025 12:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🐷Xenotransplantation—the transplantation of animal organs, such as genetically edited pig hearts or kidneys, into human patients—has moved from experimental procedures to the first approved clinical trial.
07.10.2025 12:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
📢 Join us for our next Ethics Grand Rounds: Preparing for Clinical Xenotransplantation: Ethical Considerations for Post-research Pig Organs
🗓 October 21 | 🕐 1–2 PM ET
📍 VEC 902/903 & Online
Featuring @Brendan Parent, PhD (NYU Medicine)
🔗https://cumc.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3jUET89oGsGTpSC
07.10.2025 12:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
📅Join us on October 10th, 12pm ET/ 9am PT for the next #ELSIFridayForum: Knowing or Not Knowing: The Ethics of Returning Genetic Risk Information for Alzheimer’s Disease
Speakers: Ottman, PhD; Jessica Mozersky, PhD
Moderator: Emily Largent, JD, RN, PhD.
cumc.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
29.09.2025 15:25 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🧬 New from Assistant Prof. Alexis Walker in Voices in Bioethics:
“The Ethical Startup? Lessons from DNA Marketplaces” explores how platforms like LunaDNA balance user control, profit-sharing, and complex ethical challenges in the genetic data economy.
journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/bi...
05.09.2025 16:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ethics Grand Rounds
The Division of Ethics is organizing the next Ethics Grand Rounds series for 2025/2026.
📢 Ethics Grand Rounds is back for a new season!
Join us for thought-provoking discussions on pressing issues at the intersection of ethics, medicine, and society.
📍 Every 3rd Tuesday | 1–2 PM | VP&S Amphitheater 1 & Zoom
🔗 Details: www.mhe.cuimc.columbia.edu/ethics/event...
27.08.2025 14:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
When companies holding genetic data go bankrupt (such as 23andMe), what happens to that data?
Join #ELSIFridayForum on Sep 12th 12pm/9am to explore the ethical & legal stakes—privacy, discrimination & regulatory gaps.
Register🔗https://cumc.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9Hm1ZkPmyKElAma
20.08.2025 14:12 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🧬 What happens when a genetic therapy is made for just one patient? How do we support and regulate development?
@sandrasoojinlee.bsky.social and @appelbap.bsky.social from our Division discuss the ethical implication of “research-treatment hybrids”.
🔗https://jme.bmj.com/content/51/5/jme-2023-109729
07.08.2025 13:38 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Faculty Scholars Program
Making bioethics integral to decisions in health care, policy, and research.
📢 Now open: The Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics is accepting Letters of Intent through Sept. 15, 2025 (11:59pm ET).
This career development award supports early-career faculty pursuing innovative research in bioethics.
🔗 details: greenwall.org/faculty-scho...
15.07.2025 13:11 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🆕 A new addition to ELSI in Review is live on ELSIhub !
This July update features recent reviews on key #ELSI topics—including ethical implications of using genetic predictions of aggressive behavior in the criminal justice system.
🔗 elsihub.org/news/elsi-re...
14.07.2025 15:56 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Today!
Join us at 12pm ET
ELSI Friday Forum with Drs. Gigi Gronvall, Jassi Pannu & Stephanie Guerra
Biosecurity in the Age of AI & Genomics
Explore dual-use risks & governance as AI reshapes biotech.
🔗 Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
11.07.2025 13:38 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🧬Join us Fri, July 11 @ 12pm ET for the ELSI Friday Forum with Drs. Gigi Gronvall @jassipannu.bsky.social and Stephanie Guerra
Biosecurity in the Age of AI & Genomics
Explore dual-use risks & governance as AI reshapes biotech.
🔗 Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
02.07.2025 13:18 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 8 📌 0
Division of Ethics Chief, Sandra Soo-Jin Lee @sandrasoojinlee.bsky.social , joins the advisory board of a new study examining challenges and opportunities for the responsible and equitable use of AI in Virginia’s health sector. #Bioethics #HealthEquity #ResponsibleAI
25.06.2025 17:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join Columbia Medicine on June 11 at 12 p.m. ET for the next Medicine Grand Rounds with Maya Sabatello, LLB, PhD, who will present on Data Sharing in Genomic Research: Ethical Challenges and Responsibilities, both online via Zoom and in person.
Register: columbiacuimc.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
09.06.2025 20:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Making a Difference Grants
Making bioethics integral to decisions in health care, policy, and research.
🚨 The @greenwallfdn.bsky.social's Making a Difference grant program is now accepting LOIs for Fall 2025!
Support for impactful bioethics research in clinical, biomedical & public health settings. LOIs due June 23.
greenwall.org/making-a-dif...
19.05.2025 20:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join us for the next Ethics Grand Rounds on 5/13 at 12 p.m. ET exploring the history of federal funding of university-based research in the US, featuring Jonathan Engel, PhD, and Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, PhD.
Register here: ow.ly/Sas550VGBL0
23.04.2025 20:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
TOMORROW: Join us online at 12pm ET for Ethics Grand Rounds: The Geneticization of Education and Its Bioethical Implications with Lucas J. Matthews, PhD and Paul Appelbaum, MD.
Register here: ow.ly/NV5q50VmjF8
07.04.2025 13:29 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Assoc. Prof. Maya Sabatello Awarded Tenure
Join us in congratulating Maya Sabatello, LLB, PhD
Congratulations to Maya Sabatello, LLB, PhD on being awarded tenure in the Departments of Medicine, and Medical Humanities and Ethics.
www.mhe.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/assoc-p...
27.03.2025 13:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📢 TOMORROW: ELSI Friday Forum at 12pm ET. Enhancing Genetic Screening Access through Community Partnerships in the Cleveland African American Prostate Cancer Project, with Sydney N. Evans, MSW, C-CHW, Erika S. Trapl, PhD, and Marsha Michie, PhD.
🗓️ us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
13.03.2025 14:34 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Starting in one hour: Ethics Grand Rounds: Ethical Approaches to Migrant Health: A Membership Based Account, at 12 p.m. ET in VEC Auditorium and online, with Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, PhD, Thalia Porteny, PhD, MSc, and Eunice Rendón Cárdenas, PhD.
events.columbia.edu/go/Migranthe...
11.03.2025 14:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Join us for Ethics Grand Rounds: Ethical Approaches to Migrant Health: A Membership Based Account, on March 11 at 12 p.m. ET, in person and online, with Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, PhD, Thalia Porteny, PhD, MSc, and Eunice Rendón Cárdenas, PhD.
Register here: ow.ly/R6xk50V9AG1
03.03.2025 18:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
On March 4 from 9-5 pm, the Columbia AI summit will take place across Morningside, Manhattanville, and CUIMC campuses, showcasing the University’s leadership in AI research, covering topics from healthcare, business, and policy, to STEM and the humanities.
Learn more: ai.columbia.edu/ai-summit
27.02.2025 22:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
AI at VP&S Initiative Kick-off
<p>Join us for the <strong>AI at VP&S Initiative Kickoff</strong>, a showcase of AI-driven research, applications, and innovations at VP&S. This event is open to all members of the university ...
Don't miss the AI at VP&S Initiative Kickoff event. Open to all University members! Discover how AI will shape the future of medicine at VP&S.
🗓️ Feb. 24, 5-7 PM 📍 Heart Center Auditorium, Milstein Building, 177 Fort Washington Ave. events.columbia.edu/go/VPSAIKick...
21.02.2025 18:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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