pgEd Director, Ting Wu, will be a panelist for Detroit Public TV's virtual screening of the Ken Burns' documentary, "The Gene: An Intimate History". Other panelists will be Dr. Susan Baserga, Dr. George Church, Dr. Howard Markel, Dr. Stanley Perlman, and filmmaker Chris Durrance. For more on this two-part documentary, which premieres on April 7 […]
pgEd has been invited for a dialogue with LEAH project students about the science and ethics of genome editing and the environment.
Please keep an eye on our calendar for new dates for this event. We will be meeting with veteran Carrie Taft, president of the Hope And Victory Evolves organization, and people of the Bronx community to discuss various genetic topics and their social implications. We will have a short introductory day on Friday, May 29th […]
This event was originally planned to take place on March 14th in Baltimore, MD, but is now being rescheduled as an online program. pgEd has been invited to a community conversation around precision medicine and men’s health organized by Michael Friend, founder of the Health Ministries Network (HMN) and co-founder of the Minority Coalition for […]
Ting has been invited to moderate a panel about “Gene editing and journalism: What story? Whose story? And why?” with panelists Tamar Haspel (Columnist, Washington Post), Antonio Regalado (Senior Editor for Biomedicine, MIT Technology Review), and Elliot Kirschner (Executive Producer, Human Nature and the Wonder Collaborative). For more info about this and other CRISPRcon sessions, […]
pgEd has been invited to a community conversation around precision medicine and men’s health "Endangered? A Talk on Health of Black Men in America". This event is organized by Chanita Hughes Halbert (psychologist, medical researcher, and professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at MUSC) and Michael Friend (founder of the Health Ministries Network (HMN) and […]
Dana will be joining professor Barry Logan to meet with members of the Bowdoin College community. Their session will focus on the history of the American Eugenics movement and how reverberations from that movement are still being felt today.
WHUT - Howard University Television is organizing a free community season preview of "Finding your Roots". The screening will be followed by a panel discussion joined by Nadine.
This event will focus on the latest breakthroughs in genetic medicine, the impact on treatment and health decisions of everyday people, and some of the ethical concerns that are raised.
pgEd will be presenting 2-part virtual community information and education workshops in collaboration with Hope and Victory Evolves (H.A.V.E.) in the Bronx. These conversations will focus on genetics and its role in health and medicine, ancestry testing, privacy and law enforcement.