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In our upcoming ELSI Friday Forum, we’ll discuss the responsibilities of autism researchers to the individuals and communities they study — including the promotion of wellbeing, implementation, and best practices for engagement and communication of study results.
November 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
In our upcoming ELSI Friday Forum, we’ll discuss the responsibilities of autism researchers to the individuals and communities they study — including the promotion of wellbeing, implementation, and best practices for engagement and communication of study results.
This framework provides context-specific guidance for involving patients as co-creators of knowledge, contributing to efforts to decolonize health research and strengthen patient engagement across Africa.
Read the paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Read the paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Patients as Partners in Sickle Cell Disease Research in Africa: A Framework for Equitable Patient-Engaged Health Research - The Patient - Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
Background Patient and public involvement (PPI) in health research is gaining global momentum through initiatives such as INVOLVE (UK), the Patient-Centred Outcomes Research Institute (USA), and the S...
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November 6, 2025 at 1:55 PM
This framework provides context-specific guidance for involving patients as co-creators of knowledge, contributing to efforts to decolonize health research and strengthen patient engagement across Africa.
Read the paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Read the paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
“A Crisis of Trust: The University, Regulatory Science, and the Ethical Challenges of Our Time”
🕐 1–2 PM ET | VP&S Amphitheater 1 (CUIMC) & Online via Zoom
🕐 1–2 PM ET | VP&S Amphitheater 1 (CUIMC) & Online via Zoom
October 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
“A Crisis of Trust: The University, Regulatory Science, and the Ethical Challenges of Our Time”
🕐 1–2 PM ET | VP&S Amphitheater 1 (CUIMC) & Online via Zoom
🕐 1–2 PM ET | VP&S Amphitheater 1 (CUIMC) & Online via Zoom
In “Ethics and the emerging use of pig organs for xenotransplantation” (JHLT, 2022), Arthur Caplan and Brendan Parent raise profound questions, especially how we define success of xenotransplantation.
Read the paper: www.jhltonline.org/article/S105...
Read the paper: www.jhltonline.org/article/S105...
Ethics and the emerging use of pig organs for xenotransplantation
Xenografting has been much in the news lately. A transplant team at the University
of Maryland School of Medicine gave a genetically engineered pig heart to a 57-year-old
man with severe heart disease...
www.jhltonline.org
October 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
In “Ethics and the emerging use of pig organs for xenotransplantation” (JHLT, 2022), Arthur Caplan and Brendan Parent raise profound questions, especially how we define success of xenotransplantation.
Read the paper: www.jhltonline.org/article/S105...
Read the paper: www.jhltonline.org/article/S105...
❓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.
We look forward to a thought-provoking discussion on the ethical, social, and policy implications of moving xenotransplantation from research into clinical practice.
October 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
❓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.
We look forward to a thought-provoking discussion on the ethical, social, and policy implications of moving xenotransplantation from research into clinical practice.
🐷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.
October 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
🐷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.