[Mar. 23, 2011, Vancouver]- Student Biotechnology Network (SBN) hosts Genomics, Ethics and Industry Practice panel to explore social, legal and ethical implications of current and future scientific endeavors with BEI’s Executive Director Jennifer Miller. More info here.
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  [Apr. 1, 2011, NC]- BEI’s Director Jennifer Miller speaks at North Carolina Central University School of Law’s  5th annual [...]

2011 Business and Society Relations Program
Presents
“Ethical Concerns in Biotechnology
and Health Care Advances”

January 14, 2011
8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Anheuser-Busch Briefing Center
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
1615 H Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C.
The Business and Society Relations program is partnering with the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies to conduct a year-long series of forums titled, “Issue Series on Emerging Technologies [...]

October 15 & 16, 2010, Princeton University - Open Hearts, Open Minds & Fair Minded Words - A Conference on Life & Choice in the Abortion Debate 
The conference is inspired by President Obama’s call for those on different sides of the abortion issue  to work together where we agree and engage in “vigorous debate” with “open [...]

BEI launched its new bio-pharmaceutical ethics initiative, The World Council for Ethical Standards, with the aim of empowering a measurable commitment to excellence in ethics and person-centered decision-making and innovation across the healthcare supply chain.  Initial focus is on the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries and companies.
The inaugural World Council meeting was held November 19, 2009 and included executives from Merck, Pfizer, Mannkind, [...]

The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) selected Bioethics International (BEI) to direct the ethics panel for its 2010 BIO International Convention in Chicago.
The BIO InternationalConvention is the largest global event for the biotechnology industry attracting the biggest names in biotech. It showcases the many ways the biotechnology and life science industries work together to help heal, fuel, [...]

Bioethics International’s Executive Director, Jennifer Miller, appeared on CBS2 (9/22) to discuss the ethics of ovarian transplants and childbearing age-limits with Dr. Holly Phillips.  To view the news segment video click here. 
NEW YORK (CBS)Many women who delay having children often find they’ve waited too long and can’t get pregnant.  But now there is a controversial medical [...]

[Prehospital and Disaster Medicine] There have been great efforts on the federal and local levels to prepare for the specter of a severe influenza pandemic, however knowledge gaps and operational challenges remain. It is critical to assess if current top-down efforts actually are improving and/or likely to improve the ability of on-the-ground clinicians to respond [...]

Jennifer Miller, Executive Director of Bioethics International, is on Fox News’ Strategy Room, Friday June 12, 2009, to discuss various news items including Sweden’s controversial ruling to allow gender-based abortions.

Bioethicist’s Work Bridges Science, Law, and Religion
[Science] Her colleagues still call her “the mistake.” In late 2001, Jennifer Miller was on track to become a theoretical physicist. “My dream was to work for NASA and go to Mars,” says Miller, who was then a senior at Fordham University. She was flying high–so high that when she [...]

Jennifer Miller, Executive Director of Bioethics International, discusses the ethics of human cloning on W CBS News. Click here to watch the news video.
NEW YORK (CBS) ―One maverick fertility expert claims to have implanted human clones in women. The sensational claim raises countless ethical and legal issues, and moreover the doctor offers little if any scientific proof of his [...]