Jodi Halpern
UC Berkeley
Jodi Halpern is Endowed Chair and Professor of Bioethics at UC Berkeley and the co-founder of the Berkeley Group on the Ethics and Regulation of Innovative Technologies. She graduated from Yale University with an MD and a Ph.D. in Philosophy. Halpern’s research brings together psychiatry, philosophy, behavioral economics and decision neuroscience to examine how
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Disruption & Trust: DNA, Ethics and Regulations
Three presentations explore the importance of trust in the digital society. Hyunjun Park, co-founder of CEO of Californian startup Catalog, describes how data can be stored in the form of synthetic DNA. UC…
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Gene Editing: Great Potential, Great Concerns
Fixing errors in the human DNA could cure diseases and greatly improve health – but only for the wealthy? UC Berkeley ethicist Jodi Halpern warns of a new gap between rich and poor.
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