AAAS Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law Program

Human Enhancement in Sports

Gene Doping Symposium in Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2008

AAAS and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), an international organization that provides comprehensive anti-doping monitoring and educational resources at Olympic and Paralympic Games, co-sponsored a symposium in June 2008 in St. Petersburg, Russia to discuss gene doping in sport. Resulting from the meeting was the St. Petersburg Declaration on Gene Doping, which includes policy recommendations.

Topics for Tuesday, 10 June 2008:

• General review of current state of development of gene, cell and tissue therapies (T. Friedmann)
• Overview of WADA research program for gene doping detection (O. Rabin)
• Modern Techniques in Gene Research: prospect and applicability for the detection of gene doping (A.S. Glotov/P.U. Dudkin)
• Is there a distinction between therapy and enhancement worth preserving? What is it? (Eric Juengst)

Topics for Wednesday, 11 June 2008:

• Commercialization of gene doping in sports (Mark Frankel)
• Challenges for policy making for gene doping in the sport context (Barrie Houlihan)
• Legal Framework and Law Enforcement (David Howman)
• Ethics and enhancement – where does sport lead us? (Tom Murray)

Meeting Details | Agenda and Speaker Presentations | July 2008 News Article