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The Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing was organized as a collaborative activity of the U.K.’s Royal Society and Academy of Medical Sciences, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and U.S. National Academy of Medicine, and The World Academy of Sciences. It brought together leading experts to examine the potential risks and benefits of genome editing technologies and the significant ethical and societal issues associated with advances in human genome editing research.
The first of these summits was held in Washington, DC in 2015, and the second was held in Hong Kong in 2018.
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