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Dr. Christopher Scott

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Uncharted waters: Navigating requests for experimental medicines

September 6, 2019September 6, 2019Access, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Dr. Christopher Scott, Expanded Access Program, Hannah Bablak, investigational drugs, Oncologists, Right-to-Try Act

In May 2018, the federal Right-to-Try Act was signed into law, claiming a new and improved option for patients with no therapeutic options to obtain

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The perils of partnering for profit

November 2, 2018November 1, 2018Big Data, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, conflicts-of-interest, Dr. Christopher Scott, Transparency

Editor’s note: The opinions expressed in the following blog post are the author’s own and do not reflect the views of Baylor College of Medicine.

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The gene therapy watchers: Can an NIH advisory committee reinvent itself?

October 5, 2018October 5, 2018Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Dr. Christopher Scott, FDA, gene therapy, NIH

Francis Collins, NIH Director, and Scott Gottlieb, FDA Commissioner, recently announced plans to eliminate oversight of new gene therapy experiments by the NIH’s Recombinant DNA

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CRISPR: A democratizing technology calls for democratic dialogue

April 27, 2018April 25, 2018CRISPR/Cas9, Deliberative Engagement, DNA, Dr. Christopher Scott, health policy

By now, you may have read stories about a gene editing technique called CRISPR/Cas9. CRISPR is poised to revolutionize the biological sciences because it’s the

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A ‘right to try,’ but at what cost?

April 6, 2018May 2, 2018Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Dr. Christopher Scott, health policy, pharmaceuticals, Right to Try

A few weeks ago, my colleague Stephanie Morain wrote a PolicyWise post on attempts to pass so-called “right-to-try” legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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Life played richly: Learn to live a life of fulfillment

January 11, 2017January 10, 2017Anna Deavere Smith, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Dr. Christopher Scott, Dr. Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby, ethics

In her critically acclaimed one-person show, Let Me Down Easy, Anna Deavere Smith re-enacts interviews with people observing the rich identity of the human body,

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Gene therapy: An out-of-body experience

July 1, 2016October 7, 2016Affiliates, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, David Vetter, Dr. Christopher Scott, gene therapy, Genetics, Healthcare, Houston, Research

On April 1, 2016, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) approved the first ex-vivo (outside the body) gene therapy in the Western Hemisphere. Diseased stem cells

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From the Labs Image of the Month

From The Labs Image of the Month From the Labs: A closer look at tertiary lymphoid structures. Image courtesy of M. Zelazowski/ P. Castro/Baylor’s Human Tissue Acquisition & Pathology (HTAP) Core.

Healthy Habits: A DOC-umentary Series

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