Committee on A Fairer and More Equitable, Cost-Effective, and Transparent System of Donor Organ Procurement, Allocation, and Distribution, Meredith Hackmann, Rebecca A. English, Kenneth W. Kizer
Each year, the individuals and organizations in the U.S. organ donation, procurement, allocation, and distribution system work together to provide transplants to many thousands of people, but thousands more die before getting a transplant due to the...Daugiau...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Forum on Regenerative Medicine, Sarah H. Beachy, Anna Nicholson, Lydia Teferra, Meredith Hackmann...
Regenerative medicine products, which are intended to repair or replace damaged cells or tissues in the body, include a range of therapeutic approaches such as cell- and gene-based therapies, engineered tissues, and non-biologic constructs. The curr...Daugiau...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Sarah H. Beachy, Theresa Wizemann, Kelly Choi, Meredith Hackmann, Siobhan Addie...
On February 26, 2020, the Board on Health Sciences Policy of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a 1-day public workshop in Washington, DC, to examine current and emerging bioethical issues that might arise in the co...Daugiau...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Sarah H. Beachy, Anna Nicholson, Meredith Hackmann, Siobhan Addie
Participants in this workshop, which took place on January 17, 2020, considered whether embryo model systems - especially those that use nonhuman primate cells - can be used to predict the function of systems made with human cells. Presentations prov...Daugiau...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Forum on Regenerative Medicine, Sarah H. Beachy, Joe Alper, Meredith Hackmann, Siobhan Addie...
Speakers at the workshop discussed patient recruitment and selection for gene-based clinical trials, explored how the safety of new therapies is assessed, reviewed the challenges involving dose escalation, and spoke about ethical issues such as info...Daugiau...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Roundtable on Genomics and Precision Health, Sarah H. Beachy, Joe Alper, Siobhan Addie, Meredith Hackmann...
Consumer genomics, encompassing both direct-to-consumer applications (i.e., genetic testing that is accessed by a consumer directly from a commercial company apart from a health care provider) and consumer-driven genetic testing (i.e., genetic testi...Daugiau...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Forum on Regenerative Medicine, Sarah H. Beachy, Theresa Wizemann, Meredith Hackmann
The emerging multidisciplinary field of regenerative engineering is devoted to the repair, regeneration, and replacement of damaged tissues or organs in the body. To accomplish this it uses a combination of principles and technologies from disciplin...Daugiau...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Roundtable on Genomics and Precision Health, Sarah Beachy, Theresa Wizemann, Meredith Hackmann, Siobhan Addie...
Genomic applications are being integrated into a broad range of clinical and research activities at health care systems across the United States. This trend can be attributed to a variety of factors, including the declining cost of genome sequencing...Daugiau...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Forum on Regenerative Medicine, Sarah H. Beachy, Joe Alper, Meredith Hackmann, Siobhan Addie...
On June 26, 2017, the Forum on Regenerative Medicine hosted a public workshop in Washington, DC, titled Navigating the Manufacturing Process and Ensuring the Quality of Regenerative Medicine Therapies in order to examine and discuss the challenges,...Daugiau...
