Building Capacity for a Global Genome Editing Observatory: Conceptual Challenges

J Benjamin Hurlbut; Sheila Jasanoff; Krishanu Saha; Aziza Ahmed; Anthony Appiah; Elizabeth Bartholet; Françoise Baylis; Gaymon Bennett; George Church; I Glenn Cohen; George Daley; Kevin Finneran; William Hurlbut; Rudolf Jaenisch; Laurence Lwoff; John Paul Kimes; Peter Mills; Jacob Moses; Buhm Soon Park; Erik Parens; Rachel Salzman; Abha Saxena; Hilton Simmet; Tania Simoncelli; O Carter Snead; Kaushik Sunder Rajan; Robert D Truog; Patricia Williams; Christiane Woopen

doi:10.1016/j.tibtech.2018.04.009

Building Capacity for a Global Genome Editing Observatory: Conceptual Challenges

Trends Biotechnol. 2018 Jul;36(7):639-641. doi: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2018.04.009. Epub 2018 Jun 2.

Authors

J Benjamin Hurlbut¹, Sheila Jasanoff², Krishanu Saha³, Aziza Ahmed⁴, Anthony Appiah⁵, Elizabeth Bartholet⁶, Françoise Baylis⁷, Gaymon Bennett⁸, George Church⁹, I Glenn Cohen¹⁰, George Daley¹¹, Kevin Finneran¹², William Hurlbut¹³, Rudolf Jaenisch¹⁴, Laurence Lwoff¹⁵, John Paul Kimes¹⁶, Peter Mills¹⁷, Jacob Moses¹⁸, Buhm Soon Park¹⁹, Erik Parens²⁰, Rachel Salzman²¹, Abha Saxena²², Hilton Simmet²³, Tania Simoncelli²⁴, O Carter Snead²⁵, Kaushik Sunder Rajan²⁶, Robert D Truog²⁷, Patricia Williams²⁸, Christiane Woopen²⁹

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¹ Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA; Note: The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not represent the official policies or positions of the organizations with which they are affiliated. Author affiliations are as of April, 2017. Electronic address: bhurlbut@asu.edu.
² Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA, USA; Website: http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/. Electronic address: sheila_jasanoff@harvard.edu.
³ University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA; Website: https://sahalab.bme.wisc.edu/. Electronic address: ksaha@wisc.edu.
⁴ Northeastern University School of Law, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: http://twitter.com/@AzizaAhmed.
⁵ New York University, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: http://twitter.com/@KAnthonyAppiah.
⁶ Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA.
⁷ Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Electronic address: http://twitter.com/@FrancoiseBaylis.
⁸ Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
⁹ Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: http://twitter.com/@geochurch.
¹⁰ Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA. Electronic address: http://twitter.com/@CohenProf.
¹¹ Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: http://twitter.com/@G_Q_Daley.
¹² National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, Washington, DC, USA.
¹³ Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
¹⁴ Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, USA; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
¹⁵ Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France.
¹⁶ University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA.
¹⁷ Nuffield Council on Bioethics, London, UK. Electronic address: http://twitter.com/@PeterFRMills.
¹⁸ Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
¹⁹ Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, Daejeon, South Korea.
²⁰ The Hastings Center, Garrison, NY, USA.
²¹ ALD Connect, Boston, MA, USA.
²² World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
²³ Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA, USA.
²⁴ Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA.
²⁵ University of Notre Dame, Law School, Notre Dame, IN, USA. Electronic address: http://twitter.com/@cartersnead.
²⁶ University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
²⁷ Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA; Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
²⁸ Columbia Law School, New York, NY, USA.
²⁹ Research Unit Ethics and CERES, University of Cologne, Köln, Germany. Electronic address: http://twitter.com/@CWoopen.

Abstract

A new infrastructure is urgently needed at the global level to facilitate exchange on key issues concerning genome editing. We advocate the establishment of a global observatory to serve as a center for international, interdisciplinary, and cosmopolitan reflection. This article is the first of a two-part series.

Keywords: CRISPR; bioethics; ethics; gene editing; science and technology studies; science policy.

Building Capacity for a Global Genome Editing Observatory: Conceptual Challenges

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