Katie Hasson
Katie Hasson, PhD, writes, speaks, researches, and teaches about the social and political aspects of human genetic and reproductive technologies. Katie earned her PhD in Sociology with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality from the University of California, Berkeley, and was previously Assistant Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California.
Publications
In November 2018, at a gene-editing “summit” hosted by scientific societies from the U.S., the U.K., and Hong...
The announcement by the Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui in November 2018 that he had created the world’s first gene-edited babies...
Heritable Human Genome Editing: Nearing a Critical Juncture
The impending decision about whether to develop and use heritable human genome...
In the News
Discovering your genetic history can be as simple as spitting into a test tube, but what happens when your data...
When venture capitalist Jack Abraham first began dating his wife, Gabriella Massamillo, he insisted on one condition: that when they...
2023 was an important year for patients with sickle cell disease. Prior to CRISPR, the only cure for...
Biopolitical Times
This week in London, some 400 people from around the world – including scientists, bioethicists, patients, journalists, civil society groups...
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James Wilson, director of the Gene Therapy Program at Penn’s...
The Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing, scheduled for March 7-9 in London, has now been postponed to...