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Author Sharples, Frances Ellen, rapporteur.

Title Potential risks and benefits of gain-of-function research : summary of a workshop / Frances Sharples, Jo Husbands, Anne-Marie Mazza, Audrey Thevenon, and India Hook-Barnard, rapporteurs ; Board on Life Sciences, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Committee on Science, Technology, and Law, Policy and Global Affairs Division, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine, National Research Council and Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
Published Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (1 PDF file (xiv, 125 pages)) : illustrations
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Contents Introduction -- Assessing risks and benefits -- Gain-of-function research: background and alternatives -- Potential benefits of gain-of-function research -- Potential risks: biosafety and biosecurity -- Policy implications -- Key issues for risk/benefit assessment for gain-of-function research
Summary On October 17, 2014, spurred by incidents at U.S. government laboratories that raised serious biosafety concerns, the United States government launched a one-year deliberative process to address the continuing controversy surrounding so-called "gain-of-function" (GOF) research on respiratory pathogens with pandemic potential. The gain of function controversy began in late 2011 with the question of whether to publish the results of two experiments involving H5N1 avian influenza and continued to focus on certain research with highly pathogenic avian influenza over the next three years. The heart of the U.S. process is an evaluation of the potential risks and benefits of certain types of GOF experiments with influenza, SARS, and MERS viruses that would inform the development and adoption of a new U.S. Government policy governing the funding and conduct of GOF research. Potential Risks and Benefits of Gain-of-Function Research is the summary of a two-day public symposia on GOF research. Convened in December 2014 by the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council, the main focus of this event was to discuss principles important for, and key considerations in, the design of risk and benefit assessments of GOF research. Participants examined the underlying scientific and technical questions that are the source of current discussion and debate over GOF research involving pathogens with pandemic potential. This report is a record of the presentations and discussion of the meeting
Notes Title from PDF title page
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes This study was supported by Contract No. 10002374 between the National Academy of Sciences and the National Institutes of Health, by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, and by internal support from the National Academies. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the organizations or agencies that provided support for the project
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Subject Epidemics -- United States -- Prevention -- Congresses
Risk assessment.
Pandemics -- prevention & control
Coronavirus -- pathogenicity
Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype -- pathogenicity
Risk Assessment
risk assessment.
MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Public Health.
Risk assessment
Epidemics -- Prevention
SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Subject United States
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Husbands, Jo L., rapporteur.
Mazza, Anne-Marie, rapporteur.
Thevenon, Audrey, rapporteur.
Hook-Barnard, India, rapporteur.
National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Life Sciences, issuing body.
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Science, Technology, and Law, issuing body.
Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Board on Health Sciences Policy, issuing body
Gain-of-Function Research (Symposium) (1st : 2014 : Washington, D.C.)
ISBN 9780309367844
0309367840
9780309367806
0309367808