Thursday, October 29, 2026
2-3:30 p.m. Central
Live Webinar on Zoom

Revolutionary advances in cell engineering and synthetic biology offer enormous potential benefits, while raising vexing ethical and policy issues. Join three experts on synthetic biology, biosecurity, and bioethics to explore how to realize the promise of synthetic biology while controlling potential risks.

Thursday, June 25, 2026
Noon – 1:30 p.m. Central
Live Webinar on Zoom

Organ transplantation is at a crossroads. Will new technologies save lives — perfusion options, xenotransplantation, and prolonged organ cryopreservation? Will reorganizing and modernizing the transplant system solidify public trust? Join three experts to discuss the future of organ transplantation.

Wednesday, March 4, 2026
9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Central
Live Webinar on Zoom

Join national experts to consider what the current state of research ethics is, how to strengthen research oversight and trustworthy science, what strategies will advance ethics in community-engaged research, and how research ethics should evolve to manage emerging technologies.

Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Noon-1:30 p.m. Central Time
Live Webinar on Zoom

What are the ethical, legal, and medical implications of the rise in the use of AI for health insurance coverage decisions? What regulations or other safeguards are needed? And what is the future of AI in controlling what health care patients receive? Join three experts to explore this difficult conflict between law, ethics, and medicine.

Friday, November 14, 2025
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Central
Live Webinar on Zoom

This conference will bring together national leaders from a range of disciplines to address the issues faced by complex research networks and offer new tools for these networks to conduct their work ethically and responsibly.

Wednesday, March 5, 2025
9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Central
Live Webinar on Zoom

The annual conference brought together leading experts from a range of disciplines, from biomedical sciences to the humanities, to confront the challenge of ethical use of AI in research.

Friday, November 1, 2024
Noon - 1:30 p.m. Central
Live Webinar on Zoom

Three expert panelists brought different perspectives and disciplines to the important debate related to the law, ethics, and clinical realities of physician duties when law restricts reproductive health care.

Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Noon - 1:30 p.m. Central
Live Webinar on Zoom

Three expert panelists brought different perspectives and disciplines to the important debate related to the law, ethics, and clinical realities of medical aid in dying, in both the U.S. and Canada. It was an informative and thought-provoking conversation!

Wednesday, February 28, 2024
9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Central
Live Webinar on Zoom

Interdisciplinary experts for a unique conference explored how to build partnerships with investigators, communities, clinical research professionals, and companies to promote the ethical conduct and translation of research.