The future is now: powerful new ways to treat genetic disorders and the ethical dilemmas they raise.
There are an estimated 7,000 genetic disorders, most of which are caused by minute changes in our chromosomes. The vast majority of these changes are very small alterations of just 1 of 3 billion letters that make up our DNA. Technologies to “repair” our DNA now exist and are being improved rapidly, moving the bottleneck from our ability to repair DNA to being able to do it in enough of our body’s trillions of cells.
Register for one or all of these lectures to learn more about human genetics, technologies available, recent successes, ethical issues and more.
Wednesdays, October 6-November 17 | 7 - 8:30 p.m. ET (no lecture October 27)
Members: $5/lecture
Nonmembers: $10/lecture
Introduction to Human Genetics: DNA, Our Genome and the Nature of Genetic Disease (Remote)
Wednesday, October 6 | 7 - 8:30 p.m. ET
Mitchell Drumm, PhD, Professor, Genetics and Genome Sciences, CWRU School of Medicine
New Technologies To Treat Genetic Diseases (Remote)
Wednesday, October 13 | 7 - 8:30 p.m. ET
Ronald Conlon, PhD, Professor, Genetics and Genome Sciences, CWRU School of Medicine
Emerging Technologies To Determine How Well Treatments Work (Remote)
Wednesday, October 20 | 7 - 8:30 p.m. ET
Christopher Flask, PhD, Professor of Radiology, Biomedical Engineering, and Pediatrics, CWRU
Mitchell Drumm, PhD, Professor, Genetics and Genome Sciences, CWRU School of Medicine
Successes In Treating Genetic Diseases (Remote)
Wednesday, November 3 | 7 - 8:30 p.m. ET
Anna Mitchell, MD, PhD, Associate Director, Center for Human Genetics, University Hospitals of Cleveland
Ethical And Social Issues In The Treatment Of Genetic Disease (Remote)
Wednesday, November 10 | 7 - 8:30 p.m. ET
Marsha Michie, PhD, Assistant Professor of Bioethics, CWRU School of Medicine
The Increasing Importance Of Genetic Counseling (Remote)
Wednesday, November 17 | 7 - 8:30 p.m. ET
Rebecca Darrah, MS, PhD, Associate Professor of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Co-director, Genetic Counseling Program, CWRU School of Medicine