Associate Professor @HarvardMed @MGHNeurosurg & @MGHPsychiatry Neuroscientist & Lawyer. Health and science policy implications of genomics & neuroscience.
Joined September 2017
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30 Nov 2025
In this interview with Julian Morrow from @ABCaustralia we discuss: What happens to patients when neurotechnology is abandoned? abc.net.au/listen/programs/s… via @ABCaustralia
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Gabriel Lazaro-Munoz retweeted
1 Dec 2025
Polygenic embryo screening is being marketed commercially – but how do IVF clinicians view it?
• General approval is low (12%)
For specific uses:
• 59% approved of health-related embryo selection
• 6% approved of trait-based selection
🧵 Survey findings in NPJ Genomic Medicine
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1 Dec 2025
New paper examining US reproductive medicine physicians' views on PGT-P or Polygenic Embryo Screening (PES).
1 Dec 2025
Polygenic embryo screening is being marketed commercially – but how do IVF clinicians view it?
• General approval is low (12%)
For specific uses:
• 59% approved of health-related embryo selection
• 6% approved of trait-based selection
🧵 Survey findings in NPJ Genomic Medicine
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15 Oct 2025
Talked to the Today Show about Polygenic Embryo Screening (PES; PGT-P) and some of the concerns raised by these technologies such as worries that they may promote eugenics thinking and practices.
today.com/video/breakthrough… via @TODAYshow @MGBResearchNews
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15 Oct 2025
US public perceptions abt PES / PGT-P: people are interested in the tech but almost 90% are concerned that it can promote eugenics. The public is split on approval of screening for intelligence, abt 20% approves of screening for skin color JAMA Net Open jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
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15 Oct 2025
This paper shows that stakeholders are particularly worried about eugenics if PES / PGT-P is used to screen for traits like intelligence, height, skin color.
Genetics in Medicine @GIMJournal
gimjournal.org/article/S1098…
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4 Aug 2025
Associated Press article on the challenges patients with treatment-resistant conditions face when trying to maintain beneficial experimental neural devices, once trials end. With quotes from the brilliant and inspiring Brandy Ellis. #neurotechjustice
apnews.com/article/brain-imp…
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26 Jun 2025
We just published this paper in Genetics in Medicine examining how different populations view and use the concept of "eugenics" when discussing polygenic embryo screening.
EUGENICS AND POLYGENIC EMBRYO SCREENING... gimjournal.org/article/S1098…
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26 Jun 2025
EUGENICS AND POLYGENIC EMBRYO SCREENING: PUBLIC, CLINICIAN, AND PATIENT PERCEPTIONS OF CONDITIONS VERSUS TRAITS
Led by Dorit Barlevy and @RemyFurrer with co-authors @ShaiCarmi @ToddLencz and @SPereira_PhD
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Gabriel Lazaro-Munoz retweeted
27 May 2025
Would you consider using these neurotechnologies if you were experiencing severe mood, memory, or motor symptoms?
Here’s how 1000 U.S participants responded when asked that exact question.
Collaborators: @armerner_psych @GLMbioethics @Twilli7 @MGBneurosurgery @MGBResearchNews
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15 Jan 2025
RT @BobCarterMD: It takes a coalition to build visionary new programs. It was fantastic this past year to work with Dr. Marcela del Carmen,…
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Gabriel Lazaro-Munoz retweeted
Highlights of 2024: One of the exciting initiatives for me as chair of @MGBneurosurgery this past year, was witnessing the launch of NJAM, the Neurotech Justice Accelerator at Mass General Brigham, @MassGeneralNews led by neurosurgeon Theresa Williamson MD MPH @Twilli7, Gabriel Lázaro Muñoz PhD JD @GLMbioethics and Dr. Francis Shen JD PhD with a major grant from the @dana_fdn. Read more about NJAM in the attached article and its goals in helping to develop ethical and legal frameworks for the use of rapidly advancing novel neurotechnologies.
NJAM Senior Fellows will receive mentorship and training from NJAM Director Dr. Theresa Williamson MD MPH @Twilli7, as well as NJAM Co-Directors Dr. Gabriel Lázaro Muñoz PhD JD @GLMbioethics and Dr. Francis Shen JD PhD dana.org/article/neurotech-i…
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Gabriel Lazaro-Munoz retweeted
📢Job Alert: Join the Neurotech Justice Accelerator at Mass General Brigham (NJAM), a @dana_fdn Center for Neuroscience and Society. NJAM will provide a forum and training ground to reimagine the future of #neurotechnology in society.
Learn more 👇
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Gabriel Lazaro-Munoz retweeted
4 Aug 2024
excited to share our paper on bioethics & nsgy in @WorldNeurosurg the idea of this paper was born 2 yrs ago, great to see it published!
team: @white_sasha_j @Twilli7 @BrianNahed @stephenpmiranda @GLMbioethics @drpouratian @MariamA_2023 @HMSbioethics
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
ALT screenshot of abstract of paper
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Gabriel Lazaro-Munoz retweeted
Congratulations to Ana Lucía Battaglino, MA and Erika Versalovic, PhD, researchers in our @GLMbioethics Brain Bioethics Laboratory, for their award-winning work at @neuroethicsinfo's Annual Meeting! neuroethicssociety.org/2024-… #HMSBioethics
ALT Ana Lucía Battaglino (left) and Erika Versalovic (right).
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Gabriel Lazaro-Munoz retweeted
22 Feb 2024
Excited to see the DBS Think Tank proceedings out, including the @GLMbioethics lab's continued work on post-trial obligations and @Twilli7's work on DBS access disparities!
21 Feb 2024
The Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) Think Tank XI proceedings is published! “Pushing the Forefront of Neuromodulation,” the updates, paper and meeting were highlighted by @ndosenbach who presented research recently published in @Nature w/Evan Gordon to identify and characterize the somato-cognitive action network (SCAN), which has redefined the motor homunculus and has led to new hypotheses about the integrative networks underpinning therapeutic DBS.
frontiersin.org/articles/10.… #Parkinsons @DBSThinkTank @andreashorn_ @leaddbs @foxmdphd @HelenMaybergMD @JWongggMD #deepbrainstimulation #neuromodulation
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Gabriel Lazaro-Munoz retweeted
13 Feb 2024
Meet junior neuroethicist Amanda Merner in this short series of a Day in the Life of a Neuroethicist wix.to/4m43k6v
#blog #ethics #academia #career #neuroscience #brain
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Gabriel Lazaro-Munoz retweeted
30 Jan 2024
We are delighted to present this original research in our special issue on NeuroRights.
Ethical Considerations for Integrating Multimodal Computer Perception and Neurotechnology.
frontiersin.org/research-top…
Congratulations to @GLMbioethics and team at @HMSbioethics @MGHPsychiatry
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Gabriel Lazaro-Munoz retweeted
15 Dec 2023
We are pleased to announce the publication of a new addition to ELSIhub Collections: Screening Embryos for Psychiatric Conditions: Public Perspectives, Ethical and Social Issues, edited by @GLMbioethics and @armerner_psych.
Read here: ow.ly/tL8p50QiuCy
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Gabriel Lazaro-Munoz retweeted
7 Dec 2023
Read comment from @CohenProf in "Genetic testing of embryos: An ethical debate unfolds" bostonglobe.com/2023/12/07/o… via @BostonGlobe
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