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Jesse Kirkpatrick

Principal Investigator, George Mason University

Jesse Kirkpatrick is Assistant Director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at George Mason University, an affiliate Assistant Research Professor in Mason's graduate neuroethics concentration, and a Politico-Military Analyst for Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Lab. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, where he was awarded a Hoobler Fellowship for his work on postconflict justice and public policy. Jesse specializes in political and moral philosophy, with an emphasis on the just war tradition, emerging technologies, human rights, and security studies. Prior to joining the Institute, Jesse was an Assistant Professor at Radford University and a Research Fellow at the US Naval Academy.

David Relman

Principal Investigator, Stanford University

David A. Relman, MD is the Thomas C. and Joan M. Merigan Professor in Medicine, and Microbiology & Immunology, and Co-Director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. He is also Chief of Infectious Diseases at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System in Palo Alto, California. Dr. Relman’s research focus is the human indigenous microbiota, and the identification of previously-unrecognized microbial agents of disease. He has advised the U.S. Government on emerging infectious diseases, human-microbe interactions, and future biological threats. He is Chair of the Forum on Microbial Threats at the Institute of Medicine (National Academies of Science) and Past President of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, and a Member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Gregory Koblentz

Co-Principal Investigator, George Mason University

Gregory D. Koblentz is an Associate Professor and Director of the Biodefense Graduate Program in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He is also an Associate Faculty at the Center for Global Studies at George Mason and a member of the Scientist Working Group on Chemical and Biological Weapons at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation in Washington, DC. During 2012-2013, he was a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations where he conducted research on nuclear proliferation.

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Biosecurity in the Age of Genome Editing Workshops and Reports

The research team will release a series of outputs in September 2018, including a white paper, a series of working papers, and expert authored issue briefs. Discover websites that write essays for you and learn more from their examples of academic writing on this and other topics. Discover websites that write essays for you and learn more from their examples of academic writing on this and other topics. 

In addition, the team has organized a series of small, invitation-only workshops. The workshops are designed to facilitate policy options and recommendations on how to assess benefits and risks of genome editing, how to manage the often-competing demands of promoting innovation and preventing misuse, and how to adapt current, or create new, governance mechanisms to achieve these objectives. Select workshop participants will produce issue briefs for specific areas of focus. Additional experts have been invited to participate in the workshops and serve as discussants for each issue brief. The goal is to balance participation between scientific and policy communities as well as between optimists and skeptics of the promise and peril of genome editing. Combined with two working papers written by the research team, these outputs will inform the deliberations of the life sciences, regulatory, and security policy communities, as well as the broader scientific community and public stakeholders, on the appropriate measures to promote and safeguard this promising and powerful new technology. Just like experts from essayhelp.org, we work hard to present as much new information on the topic as possible.

Past Workshops
Biosecurity in the Age of Genome Editing Project

March 15-16, 2018, Stanford University
December 18-19, 2017, George Mason University
May 26, 2017, George Mason University .