Last week, the biotech firm eGenesis supplied a donor kidney sourced from a genome-edited pig to a surgical team at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in the US. The donated kidney was transplanted into a patient with end-stage renal disease whose existing kidney transplant (‘allotransplanted’ from a human) was wearing out. The FDA had granted an […]

After a long journey that should have been no surprise whatsoever (not when one looks at the scale and size of this volume), a book chapter I authored with Emeritus Distinguished Prof Dianne Nicol from the University of Tasmania’s Centre for Law and Genetics, way back in 2021, has now been published. The chapter deals […]

Learn Me Right in Health Law and Bioethics is a podcast produced by QUT’s Australian Centre for Health Law Research. I was fortunate to be invited to join the podcast by its scholar producers, Sinead Prince and Ruthie Jeanneret, and to discuss my work on somatic cell genome editing. Gene therapy and genome editing One […]

Cellular Horizons is a Medical Research Future Fund project investigating how consumers (and health practitioners) can improve decisions about accessing cellular therapies.

In November I delivered two conference papers. I summarise them below.