He Jiankui refused to answer researchers’ questions about his controversial 2018 experiments at weekend event.
that he was not comfortable discussing his past work. “I feel that I am not ready to talk about my experience in past 3 years,” he tweeted. He also said he would no longer attend the University of Oxford in March for a series of interviews with Kirksey, and said that he would not be attending an international genome editing summit at the Francis Crick Institute, where researchers will discuss the ethics of germline editing, also planned for March.
It is not known whether He’s previous work succeeded or left the children free from side effects. Without evidence of that, Kirksey remains sceptical about He’s future scientific plans.Since being released last year from prison for violating medical regulations in China, He has revealed on social media that he has set up a not-for-profit research laboratory in Beijing focused on developing affordable therapies for hereditary diseases such as Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy .
He, who gave a 25-minute presentation in Chinese, with simultaneous English translation, briefly described his plans to develop a gene-editing drug for people living with DMD, for which he is currently raising funding from philanthropic organisations. He said he would not be accepting investments from commercial entities to ensure that the therapies they develop are affordable, and that an international ethics committee would provide guidance on the work.
“It bordered on being insulting to the conference organizers and the participants to have used up the time with details and information that were not relevant,” says Françoise Baylis, a bioethicist and professor emerita at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada.
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