Bezpłatny webinar „Bodyoids – Ethical Innovation or Biological Boundary?”

2 grudnia 2025 roku

godzina 19:00

We invite you to a meeting devoted to one of the most innovative and widely discussed concepts of modern biology and medicine – the so-called bodyoids – laboratory-grown anatomical structures using pluripotent stem cells. Currently, such models are not possible to obtain even on animals, but it is an idea that seems probable to the extent that justifies discussion and reflection. Although the topic is controversial, it is a good way to start a scientific debate that may enable the development of modern solutions in regenerative medicine, transplantology or pharmacy in the future.

The webinar is intended for scientists, doctors, bioengineers, representatives of the biotechnology industry and all those interested in the latest solutions in preclinical research, drug development and tissue engineering technologies.

The event will address:

• the scientific basis of creating bodyoids and the current state of research,
• the intentions and goals of creating bodyoids,
• the scope that is being considered in the context of the possibility of using this technology in medicine and pharmacy,
• the technical aspects related to the concept of developing a non-sentient body from stem cells outside of a human uterus,
• the perspectives of two researchers, part of an interdisciplinary team that has worked on this technology,
• ethical and legal issues related to bodyoids.

The meeting is informative and educational – the aim is to present current scientific achievements, perspectives and directions of change and to create a space for discussion, asking questions, exchanging knowledge, and reflecting on ethical aspects.

Język: angielski

Format: online

Koszt: darmowe

O prowadzących:

Carsten Charlesworth, PhD., is a postdoctoral scholar in the laboratory of Dr. Hiromitsu Nakauchi at Stanford University. He received his undergraduate degree in biology from Cal Poly Humboldt. He first joined Stanford through a CIRM-funded internship and has remained there since where he received his PhD., working at the intersection of stem cell biology, synthetic biology, and regenerative medicine. His research focuses on the genetic engineering of stem cells and their use in developing new therapeutic approaches. He has worked on gene therapy, in vivo delivery, and the use of human cells as vehicles for delivering genetic medicines. Most recently, he has been involved in developing bodyoids, stem cell–derived constructs designed to model aspects of human biology, which emerged from a practical frustration with the challenges of translating promising scientific advances into clinical treatments and the ethical complexities of using sentient animal models to advance biomedicine.

Henry T. (Hank) Greely is the Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law; Professor, by courtesy, of Genetics; and Director of the Center for Law and the Biosciences at Stanford University. He specializes in ethical, legal, and social issues arising from the biosciences, particularly genetics, neuroscience, stem cell research, and assisted reproduction. He is a founder and a past president of the International Neuroethics Society and chairs the California Advisory Committee on Human Stem Cell Research. For six years, until August 2022, he served on the NIH BRAIN Initiative’s Multi-Council Working Group while co-chairing the Initiative’s Neuroethics Work Group and for three years, until March 2024, he chaired the ELSI Committee of the Earth BioGenome Project. He is the author of THE END OF SEX AND THE FUTURE OF HUMAN REPRODUCTION (Harv. Univ. Press 2016) and CRISPR PEOPLE: THE SCIENCE AND ETHICS OF EDITING HUMANS (MIT Press 2021). Greely graduated from Stanford in 1974 and Yale Law School in 1977. He clerked for Judge John Minor Wisdom of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Potter Stewart, then served in the Departments of Defense and Energy in the Carter Administration. He litigated at the Los Angeles firm of Tuttle & Taylor before joining the Stanford faculty in 1985.

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