S. Matthew Liao & John Rasko - Immortality, fraud and the future of the human species
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S. Matthew Liao
S. Matthew Liao is a philosopher specialising bioethics. He is Arthur Zitrin Chair of Bioethics, Director of the Center for Bioethics, Professor of Global Public Health, and Affiliated Professor in the Department of Philosophy at New York University. He has given TED and TEDx talks in New York and Switzerland, and he has been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, the BBC, Harper’s Magazine, The Sydney Morning Herald, Scientific American and other media outlets. Liao is the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Moral Philosophy, a peer-reviewed international journal of moral, political and legal philosophy.
John Rasko
John Rasko is an Australian clinical haematologist, pathologist and scientist, pioneering in the application of adult stem cells and genetic therapies. Since 1999 he has directed the Department of Cell and Molecular Therapies at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and the Gene and Stem Cell Therapy Program at the Centenary Institute, University of Sydney. In over 200 publications he has contributed to the understanding of stem cells and blood cell development, human genetic diseases, gene therapy technologies, cancer causation and treatment. Rasko has provided advice to governments in regulating gene technologies and is widely acknowledged as an international thought-leader in regenerative medicines.
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