Chandan K. Sen, PhD, MS
Director, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Professor of Surgery
University of Pittsburgh
Daniel E. Hall, MD, MDiv, MHSc
Professor of Surgery
Faculty, Center for Bioethics & Health Law
University of Pittsburgh
Abstract: Natural, but not accidental or traumatic, human organismal death initiates a state within the body wherein tissue components strive to survive by mounting the expression of survival genes. This phenomenon offers an opportunity to gain insight into biological resilience. Of outstanding interest is the observation that in humans such survival response is mounted following “slow” but not “fast” (traumatic) death. This work increases understanding of the ways in which cells and tissues, and the genes in them, strive for life even as the body dies. The phenomenon also raises bioethical and policy questions that will be explored during this RESI First Fridays Seminar.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Bioethics & Health Law and the Research, Ethics and Society Initiative (RESI)
Location and Address
Online