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May
17, 2011 _ 17.30-19.00 _ University of Vienna, Aula am Campus
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DISCUSSION |
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With
keynotes by Giulio Superti-Furga and Giuseppe Testa |
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2011
marks the 10th anniversary of the publication of the first drafts
of the human genome. Celebrated with as much scientific glamour
as political emphasis, these first drafts promised to usher into
a future of unprecedented progress in both basic biology and medicine.
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In
this event, we take the 10th anniversary of the human genome as
an opportunity to look back at the past ten years and ahead at the
imminent developments. Capitalizing on the past ten years, we want
to explore how far we have moved since then. What do the 2001 draft
genomes mean to us, today? What has happened since then and what
does this imply for science and society? Which promises have been
materialized and which unexpected transformations have taken shape?
Looking back to the past ten years, then, will also enable us to
look ahead to the coming decade: Where is the genomic revolution
leading us in the next decade? And what might we learn, from experience
with the human genome, about the relationship between the bio-sciences
and society at the beginning of the 21st century? |
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This
discussion, to which you are warmly invited, will be followed by
a reception. |
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Giulio
Superti-Furga, Ph.D., is Scientific Director and CEO of the Research
Center of Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
and a visiting professor at the Medical University of Vienna. Giulio
Superti-Furga is a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and
of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. |
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Giuseppe
Testa, M.D., Ph.D., M.A., heads the Laboratory of Stem Cell
Epigenetics at the European Institute for Oncology (IEO) in Milan
and is the cofounder of the interdisciplinary PhD program FOLSATEC
(Foundations of the Life Sciences and Their Ethical Consequences)
in Milan. With a background in medicine and molecular biology, Giuseppe
Testa also trained in Bioethics and Social Studies of Science and
Technology. He co-authored with Helga Nowotny, “ Naked Genes.
Reinventing the Human in the Molecular Age” (MIT Press 2011). |
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Last updated
05/10/2011 |
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