Oliver Feeney

Early registeration deadline! Wed 12th November @ 23:59 CET

Existential Threats and Other Disasters: Paris, 11-12 June, 2026.

We had a great response to the call for abstracts!

For those selected, and for all welcome to attend, register this week at: www.csb.eu.com/conference/r...

Existential Threats & Other Disasters: Novel (Bio)ethical Solutions for Novel Challenges, Paris, 11-12 June 2026.

In response to a number of requests:

=> New deadline - abstract submissions = 5 Nov
=> New deadline - early registration = 12 Nov

See: www.csb.eu.com/conference.

Early registeration by 23.59 CEST tonight (24.10.25) for the conference "Existential Threats and Other Disasters: Novel (Bio)ethical Solutions for Novel Challenges", 11-12 June, Paris 2026. For more info: www.csb.eu.com/conference.

CFA extended: In response to a number of requests, 250-word (max) abstracts can still be submitted until the end of 22nd Oct. Wednesday (11.59pm CET/CEST) via the website: www.csb.eu.com/conference/

Any questions, let me know [oliver.feeney[at]uni-tuebingen.de] and I will get back to you asap.

Existential Threats and Other Disasters –International Conference "Existential Threats and Other Disasters: Novel (Bio)ethical Solutions for Novel Challenges" at Reid Hall in Paris, France (June 11–12, 2026)

Join some of the leading names in bioethics to discuss AI, enhancements, germline gene edits, climate change, conflict & war, bioterrorism, social media & polarization.

Send an abstract on Wed. 15 Oct for 'Existential Threats' conference, Paris, 11-12 June 2026.

For info: www.csb.eu.com/conference

Participants arriving in Tübingen for the 2025 CIVIS BIP Science, Ethics & Governance of Human Gene Editing! The final year of the CIVIS/Ethics of Genome Editing Research Unit (@robranisch.bsky.social) event, first coordinated by @gardar.bsky.social & myself back in 2022!
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'Timely Intervention': "Clinical trials of OTOF-gene therapy for severe deafness in children. We outline some ethical considerations on consent, vulnerability, & uncertainity.

Ellen Reisinger, Hans-Jörg Ehni, Oliver Feeney & Urban Wiesing in: Human Gene Therapy. www.liebertpub.com/doi/epub/10....

What has 10 years of CRISPR and 50 years since Asilomar taught us about life, law, policy, politics, religion, and ethics?

Join me (and colleagues) for the opening conversation at the Global Observatory for Genome Editing International Summit.

Register: lnkd.in/eedQgBfj

Early View | Diametros

📢New papers published in "Diametros" as part of the forthcoming special issue "Bioethics Meets Political Philosophy":
👉Thaddeus Metz, Intuitions about Just Public Healthcare Versus Liberal Political Theory
👉Greg Bognar, Liberalism and Human Genetic Enhancement
diametros.uj.edu.pl/diametros/is...

Holly Fernandez Lynch, a bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania: “Once you have asked people to undertake the burden and risk of research participation, you don’t get to then just decide, Oh, we don’t want to do it anymore.”

www.biomedcentral.com/collections/...
Submission deadline: 19 December 2025

#bioethics #PublicHealth #ageism

Experts Discuss Guardrails for Heritable Human Genome Editing Officials at ARM, ASGCT, and ISCT convened a small group of scientists, policy experts, religious leaders and patient advocates, in Washington, DC, this week to review the current state of HHGE guidel...

“Denis Rebrikov, MD, the Russian scientist who stated publicly in 2019 that he wanted to use CRISPR to help deaf couples edit embryos to become hearing-enabled ..now says he is no longer pursuing HHGE for deafness because “deaf couples don’t want hearing children.” www.genengnews.com/topics/genom...

Cover image of the new Special Issue titled 'Existential Threats and Other Disasters: How Should We Address Them': in the current issue of the Journal of Ethics and Emerging Technologies (2005: Vol. 35. No 2)

FYI: My own slightly pessimistic 'Polarizing biotechnologies & a polarized public' brings together my current worries with some of my ethics and public engagement thoughts on future genomic editing/enhancement techology: jeet.ieet.org/index.php/ho... (see the other great papers in this Issue too)

PowerPoint title slide of presentation 'Disability, Selection & Genome Editing: Rethinking (non)identity-affecting debates', by Oliver Feeney; picture of conference participants in room around table; programme cover for 6th International Scientific-Practical Conference Socio-ethical and Deontological Problems of Contemporary Medicine Zaporizhzhia State Medical And Pharmaceutical University, Ukraine 20-21 February 2025.

Delighted to remotely join the incredibly resiliant, couragous scholars in Ukraine's Zaporizhia State Medical & Pharmaceutical University for the 6th Int. Scientific & Practical Conference "Socially-Ethical and Deontological Problems of Modern Medicine": mphu.edu.ua/new_5988.html

Picture of the 4 guest editors (two women, two men) of the Frontiers Research Topic titled Silenced Voices: The Role of Marginalized Groups in Debates on the Regulation of CRISPR-Cas-Based Human Genome Editing open call for submissions - deadline for abstracts - 31 March 2025; deadline for papers 31 July 2025. Contact us to find out more.

CFP: We would very much welcome contributions from all working in this area, especially those from marginalised groups themselves: frontiersin.org/research-top... [informal queries to the guest editors, via: oliver.feeney@uni-tuebingen.de] @aem-online.bsky.social @jungemedizinethik.bsky.social

Looking forward to our half day symposium on fundamental biomedical research today aiming to demonstrate the need for increased funding for fundamental research in order to build national capacity and improve the career paths and prospects for biomedical researchers. #FundamentalResearch

Last publication of 2024! Delighted to have co-authored this paper with Vojin Rakić & Sergey Shevchenko in the great Humana.Mente Special Issue Procreative Futures. Ethics and Politics of Human ‘Coming to the World’, edited by Federica Buongiorno & Matteo Galletti: www.humanamente.eu/index.php/HM...

FYI @medycynapraktyczna.bsky.social: My 'Bioethical Challenges of Human Genome Editing: Messages, Imaginaries, and Realities', pp.150–155: and other fine articles in the December 2024 special issue of MEDYCYNA PRAKTYCZNA (all articles in Polish): ads.mp.pl/www/delivery...

Forum on the Future of Irish Bioethics - Royal Irish Academy The Royal Irish Academy’s Life and Health Sciences committee recently hosted a Forum on the Future of Irish Bioethics to critically examine bioethical frameworks in Ireland.

Would Ireland benefit from having a national bioethics body? If so, what would this body look like? If not, how should Ireland address emerging bioethical challenges in the future? Some of the topics discussed at the @royalirishacademy.bsky.social www.ria.ie/2024/11/19/f... Report coming soon!

Final call for applications (Deadline 31 Oct) for CIVIS BIP Science, Ethics & Governance of Human Genome Editing Uni Tübingen 2025.
If you are in the CIVIS Alliance universities, please do share to relevant departments and students.
List of CIVIS Alliance universities are: civis.eu/en/discover-...

Frontiers | Beyond the traditional distinctions of genome editing: evaluating a vulnerability framework Over 40 years ago, the 1982 Splicing Life report outlined the two distinctions that have orientated much of the normative and legal landscape of genetic inte...

New CIVIS-Uni Tübingen output!: Angelioudaki, Badea, Bodo, Fernández-Soto, Karyampa, Kokkinakis, Kolisis, Kominea, Ozáez Armijos, Vogel & Feeney (2024) Beyond the traditional distinctions in HGE => vulnerability?: www.frontiersin.org/journals/gen...

Science, Ethics & Governance of Human Genome Editing Explore the exciting implications of human genome editing and related technologies, including their scientific and medical possibilities, governance and ethical problems

CIVIS BIP Science-Ethics-Governance Human Gene Editing 2025 - Summer in Tübingen! Apply now!
civis.eu/en/learn/civ... @unituebingen.bsky.social

Currently accepting abstracts from all who were in the Existential Threats Conference in Montenegro in May!

The year of 2024!
Thanks to everyone taking part from Tübingen - Stockholm - Madrid - Marseille - Athens - Bucharest - Bruxelles - Rome - Lausanne!
Thanks to all for a great CIVIS BIP!
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New paper! with lead author Ana Ruxandra Badea, talented Universitatea din București participant from our 1st CIVIS Alliance on the science, ethics, governance of human genome editing summer programs in Uni Tübingen Med faculty/Ethics of genome editing Research Unit IEGM.
Link here: rdcu.be/dOUDm

CIVIS Blended Intensive Programme: The science, ethics & governance of human genome editing Uni of Tübingen, 2024.
Thanks everyone for a very successful series of virtual sessions!
Tomorrow starts the in-person 5-day week in Tübingen!

FYI: Interesting European Journal of Human Genetics paper that I did a short comment on Gaydarska et al. The interplay of ethics and genetic technologies in balancing the social valuation of the human genome in UNESCO declarations: doi.org/10.1038/s414...
My comment is here: doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Vor einem halben Jahr, haben wir tausende Einladungen zur #Bürgerkonferenz „Robotik in der Altenpflege?“ 🤖🧓 verschickt. Das erste Wochenende liegt hinter uns. Es war intensiv und produktiv. Die Bürger:innen sind auf dem Weg zu einer gemeinsamen Empfehlung für die Pflege von morgen!🧵1/11