Couldn’t attend the event? Check out some of our speakers’ slide presentations! Description The 2010 passage of the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act was intended to create a pathway for the approval of biosimilar drugs, to bring to market less expensive versions of innovators’ biologic therapeutics in the same way the Hatch-Waxman Act has…
Learn more about the presentations – check out slides below! Amanda Pustilnik, JD and Maureen Strafford MD discussed fetal pain, including advances in neuroscience and treatment and their implications for the law. Amanda Pustilnik, JD, served as the inaugural Senior Fellow in Law and Applied Neuroscience as part of the Project on Law and Applied…
Couldn’t attend in person? Learn more about the event: Description The Fourth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review symposium featured leading experts discussing major developments during 2015 and what to watch out for in 2016. The discussion at this day-long event covered hot topics in such areas as health insurance, health care systems, public health,…
Description The Petrie-Flom Center hosted a conversation with former FDA Commissioner (and former New York City Health Commissioner), Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg, led by Peter Barton Hutt, former Chief Counsel to FDA and current Senior Counsel at Covington & Burling LLP and Lecturer on Law at HLS. Topics discussed included FDA’s role and the changing…
Brain-Computer Interfaces Event Description This event was free and open to the public. Twitter: Follow @HMSbioethics on Twitter and join the conversation using #neuroethx Connecting the human brain to a computer is no longer science fiction. Patients unable to control their bodies will soon be able to control computers and external devices, like wheelchairs, using…
An edited volume based on this conference is due out from MIT Press in September 2017. Check it out! Learn more about the presentations – check out some of our speakers’ slides below! Couldn’t attend in person? Join the conversation online: Go to @PetrieFlom on Twitter and use #specimenscience! Description Many important advances in human…
A lecture by Laurence Steinberg, PhD In the past decade, the United States Supreme Court has issued landmark opinions in three cases that involved the criminal culpability of juveniles. In 2005, the Court abolished the juvenile death penalty. In 2010, the Court banned life without parole for juveniles convicted of crimes other than homicide. And…
Description This conference was an afternoon of reflection on the life, work, and enduring influence of Professor Alan Wertheimer (1942-2015). Professor Wertheimer was a leading philosopher of law and bioethics, making critical contributions to clinical research ethics; theories of coercion, undue influence, and exploitation; consent in a variety of contexts, and much more. This tribute…
In September 2015, Columbia University Press published FDA in the Twenty-First Century: The Challenges of Regulating Drugs and New Technologies, co-edited by Petrie-Flom Center Executive Director Holly Fernandez Lynch and Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen. This edited volume stems from the Center’s 2013 annual conference, which brought together leading experts from academia, government, and private…
The Ethics of Cognitive Enhancement in Gaming and Competition Event Description This event was free and open to the public. Personal enhancement isn’t new (think hard work and caffeine), but our ability to directly improve performance using drugs and devices is rapidly improving. In turn, this raises concerns about fairness, justice, safety and regulation. Some…
