Oliver Feeney
@oliverfeeney.bsky.social
Bio/ethics, governance gene edit (etc), pol. phil., trust, justice. Rewilding/woodland.
https://www.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/de/das-klinikum/mitarbeiter/profil/3936
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Oliver-Feeney
www.linkedin.com/in/oliver-p-feeney
https://www.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/de/das-klinikum/mitarbeiter/profil/3936
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Oliver-Feeney
www.linkedin.com/in/oliver-p-feeney
If you are coming to Paris, and have yet to do so, don't forget to register before midnight CET! To register, go to: www.csb.eu.com/conference/r...
December 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
If you are coming to Paris, and have yet to do so, don't forget to register before midnight CET! To register, go to: www.csb.eu.com/conference/r...
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New Gene-Editing Strategy Could Help Development of Treatments for Rare Diseases. Instead of requiring personalized gene edits for each patient, the new approach could create a standardized method to use for many diseases. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/h...
New Gene-Editing Strategy Could Help Development of Treatments for Rare Diseases
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
New Gene-Editing Strategy Could Help Development of Treatments for Rare Diseases. Instead of requiring personalized gene edits for each patient, the new approach could create a standardized method to use for many diseases. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/h...
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The Academy’s Life and Health Sciences Committee has released reports from two policy-related events, one addressing the future of Irish bioethics and one addressing the importance of fundamental biomedical research.
You can read these now on our website: www.ria.ie/2025/11/12/r...
You can read these now on our website: www.ria.ie/2025/11/12/r...
November 14, 2025 at 11:30 AM
The Academy’s Life and Health Sciences Committee has released reports from two policy-related events, one addressing the future of Irish bioethics and one addressing the importance of fundamental biomedical research.
You can read these now on our website: www.ria.ie/2025/11/12/r...
You can read these now on our website: www.ria.ie/2025/11/12/r...
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 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...
November 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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 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.
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.
October 28, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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.
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.
October 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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/
October 17, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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/
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
Send an abstract on Wed. 15 Oct for 'Existential Threats' conference, Paris, 11-12 June 2026.
For info: www.csb.eu.com/conference
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)
www.csb.eu.com
October 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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
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!
@unituebingen.bsky.social
@unituebingen.bsky.social
July 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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!
@unituebingen.bsky.social
@unituebingen.bsky.social
'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....
Ellen Reisinger, Hans-Jörg Ehni, Oliver Feeney & Urban Wiesing in: Human Gene Therapy. www.liebertpub.com/doi/epub/10....
www.liebertpub.com
May 28, 2025 at 9:11 PM
'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....
Ellen Reisinger, Hans-Jörg Ehni, Oliver Feeney & Urban Wiesing in: Human Gene Therapy. www.liebertpub.com/doi/epub/10....
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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
Join me (and colleagues) for the opening conversation at the Global Observatory for Genome Editing International Summit.
Register: lnkd.in/eedQgBfj
May 3, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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
Join me (and colleagues) for the opening conversation at the Global Observatory for Genome Editing International Summit.
Register: lnkd.in/eedQgBfj
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📢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...
👉Thaddeus Metz, Intuitions about Just Public Healthcare Versus Liberal Political Theory
👉Greg Bognar, Liberalism and Human Genetic Enhancement
diametros.uj.edu.pl/diametros/is...
Early View
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May 5, 2025 at 12:08 PM
📢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...
👉Thaddeus Metz, Intuitions about Just Public Healthcare Versus Liberal Political Theory
👉Greg Bognar, Liberalism and Human Genetic Enhancement
diametros.uj.edu.pl/diametros/is...
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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.”
Ruining studies and potentially harming research subjects...
Abruptly terminating clinical trials...
Ignorant and evil
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Abruptly terminating clinical trials...
Ignorant and evil
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
The NIH’s Most Reckless Cuts Yet
Ending clinical trials with no warning can put patients at risk.
www.theatlantic.com
March 27, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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.”
Reposted by Oliver Feeney
www.biomedcentral.com/collections/...
Submission deadline: 19 December 2025
#bioethics #PublicHealth #ageism
Submission deadline: 19 December 2025
#bioethics #PublicHealth #ageism
March 28, 2025 at 9:22 AM
www.biomedcentral.com/collections/...
Submission deadline: 19 December 2025
#bioethics #PublicHealth #ageism
Submission deadline: 19 December 2025
#bioethics #PublicHealth #ageism
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“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...
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...
www.genengnews.com
March 28, 2025 at 8:28 PM
“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...
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)
March 11, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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)
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
February 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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
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
February 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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
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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
February 5, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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...
December 31, 2024 at 7:15 PM
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...
December 31, 2024 at 6:46 PM
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...
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!
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.
www.ria.ie
November 24, 2024 at 11:48 PM
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-...
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-...
October 23, 2024 at 9:20 AM
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-...
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-...
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...
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...
www.frontiersin.org
October 19, 2024 at 10:53 PM
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...
CIVIS BIP Science-Ethics-Governance Human Gene Editing 2025 - Summer in Tübingen! Apply now!
civis.eu/en/learn/civ... @unituebingen.bsky.social
civis.eu/en/learn/civ... @unituebingen.bsky.social
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.eu
September 20, 2024 at 8:30 PM
CIVIS BIP Science-Ethics-Governance Human Gene Editing 2025 - Summer in Tübingen! Apply now!
civis.eu/en/learn/civ... @unituebingen.bsky.social
civis.eu/en/learn/civ... @unituebingen.bsky.social