Podcast appearances and mentions of Andreas C Dracopoulos

Last week, researchers announced they successfully used CRISPR injected directly into the bloodstream to treat a genetic disease. It's being hailed as a major milestone for patients, and heralds the day when CRISPR — an innovative gene-editing technique that allows for precise changes to DNA — is used to treat other genetic diseases like muscular dystrophy, cystic fibrosis and cancer. CRISPR works like a pair of genetic scissors. If researchers can identify a genetic defect inside a living cell, they can use CRISPR to cut that spot and either delete, repair or replace the affected gene. But that same power has the potential for harm. In 2019, a Chinese doctor ended up in prison after he used CRISPR to create the world's first gene-edited babies. Bioethicists warn that CRISPR should be used cautiously, lest scientists accidentally transform the human race. Tuesday, host Kerri Miller spoke with one of the pioneers of CRISPR and a bioethicist who specializes in the ethics of genetic modification. Guests: Alexis Komor is a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego and the lead researcher at the Komor Lab. Jeffrey Kahn is the Andreas C. Dracopoulos director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and a professor of bioethics and public policy in the Department of Health Policy and Management of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. To listen to the full conversation you can use the audio player above. Subscribe to the MPR News with Kerri Miller podcast on: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or RSS

The COVID-19 pandemic isn’t just testing our medicine. It’s testing our morals. In March, public health leaders predicted doctors could be put into the nightmarish situation of determining who got a ventilator, if communities failed to practice social distancing. Now that hospitals have had time to stockpile equipment, medical staff no longer face having to decide that particular question. But new ethical conundrums are rising up. Is it OK to test an unknown vaccine on human subjects? Once a vaccine is developed, who gets it first? What about hoarding? How do we balance our own freedom against the good of the group? Thursday on MPR News with Kerri Miller, spoke with two leading bioethicists to help us examine the tough decisions faced by doctors, government leaders and the public.  Guests: Jeffrey Kahn is the Andreas C. Dracopoulos director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and a professor of bioethics and public policy in the Department of Health Policy and Management of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Mildred Solomon is president of The Hastings Center and professor of global health and social science at Harvard, where she directs the school's Fellowship in Bioethics.

COVID-19 cases continue to multiply in the United States. Meanwhile, medical professionals, government officials and communities are hard at work to tamp down the continued spread of the virus through care and social distancing. But those aren’t the only challenges we face. The spread of the novel coronavirus is requiring hard choices in terms of public health, the economy, and in some cases life and death. MPR News host Kerri Miller talked with a bioethicist about ethics in the time of a pandemic and what it all means for our health and our society. Guest: Jeffrey Kahn is the Andreas C. Dracopoulos director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. He also is the inaugural Robert Henry Levi and Ryda Hecht Levi professor of bioethics and public policy and a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

On April 23, 2019, the Aerospace Security Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies will be hosting a discussion on pre-existing and emerging threats to U.S. space systems. The event will kickoff with a keynote from Steve Kitay, DASD for Space Policy. Following Mr. Kitay's remarks, an expert panel will discuss recent global counterspace developments. This event highlights the Aerospace Security Project’s new report, Space Threat Assessment 2019, and the Secure World Foundation’s new report, Global Counterspace Capabilities. Following the discussion, please join us for a screening of a new documentary, Commanding Space: The Story Behind the Space Force, produced by the CSIS Andreas C. Dracopoulos iDeas Lab. To celebrate the launch of both the new report and the documentary, we invite you to stay after the screening for a networking reception.This event is made possible through general support to CSIS. 

On April 23, 2019, the Aerospace Security Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies will be hosting a discussion on pre-existing and emerging threats to U.S. space systems. The event will kickoff with a keynote from Steve Kitay, DASD for Space Policy. Following Mr. Kitay's remarks, an expert panel will discuss recent global counterspace developments. This event highlights the Aerospace Security Project’s new report, Space Threat Assessment 2019, and the Secure World Foundation’s new report, Global Counterspace Capabilities. Following the discussion, please join us for a screening of a new documentary, Commanding Space: The Story Behind the Space Force, produced by the CSIS Andreas C. Dracopoulos iDeas Lab. To celebrate the launch of both the new report and the documentary, we invite you to stay after the screening for a networking reception.This event is made possible through general support to CSIS. 

On April 23, 2019, the Aerospace Security Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies will be hosting a discussion on pre-existing and emerging threats to U.S. space systems. The event will kickoff with a keynote from Steve Kitay, DASD for Space Policy. Following Mr. Kitay's remarks, an expert panel will discuss recent global counterspace developments. This event highlights the Aerospace Security Project’s new report, Space Threat Assessment 2019, and the Secure World Foundation’s new report, Global Counterspace Capabilities. Following the discussion, please join us for a screening of a new documentary, Commanding Space: The Story Behind the Space Force, produced by the CSIS Andreas C. Dracopoulos iDeas Lab. To celebrate the launch of both the new report and the documentary, we invite you to stay after the screening for a networking reception.This event is made possible through general support to CSIS.