Under the innovative leadership of Michael Shodell, the long-running Risk Assessment Program held meetings emphasizing cancer prevention. CSHL’s focus on alleviating human suffering was broadened resulting from the 1988 Genetics and Society meeting that led to changes in the way DNA fingerprinting was implemented. Two meeting participants, Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, went on to found the Innocence Project, which uses DNA data to free the wrongly convicted.
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