Time & Location
May 17, 2026, 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Guilford Hall Brewery, 1611 Guilford Ave, Baltimore, MD 21202, USA
About the event
Profs and Pints Baltimore presents: "Eugenics Then and Now,” on a dangerous movement in science and its lessons for current research, with Carlo Quintanilla, molecular biologist and health science policy analyst at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
[Doors open at 3. The talk starts at 4:30. The room is open seating.]
Global concerns about the return of eugenic thinking were reignited by Chinese scientist He Jiankui’s 2018 announcement of the first gene-edited babies, Lulu and Nana. He was quickly condemned by the scientific community and jailed for illegal medical practice, but he and others around the world continue experiments with goals echoing eugenic ambitions.