Professor Susan M. Wolf Joins Other Experts to Propose Oversight Strategies for Revolutionary NewTechnologies to Stop Biological Time

Professor Susan M. Wolf, Regents Professor, Faegre Drinker Professor of Law, Professor of Medicine, and Chair of the University of Minnesota's Consortium on Law and Values, co-edited a symposium issue of the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (JLME) with Professor Timothy Pruett, Professor of Surgery and Internal Medicine at the University of Minnesota, and Dr. Korkut Uygun, director of the Organ Reengineering Lab at the Center for Engineering in Medicine & Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital. The collection of 10 articles in JLME maps the huge potential and oversight challenges of emerging biopreservation technologies to stopbiological time. These technologies to revolutionize organ transplantation, pathogen research, food systems, aquaculture, environmental conservation, and deep-space travel offer enormous benefits while posing significant oversight challenges. Engineers and scientists in the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Advanced Technologies for the Preservation of Biological Systems (ATP-Bio) are pioneering these emerging technologies while ATP-Bio’s ethics and public policy component offers recommendations for oversight andgovernance. The ethics and public policy component of the project is based in the Consortium.