Tata Institute for Genetics and Society

Statement of Principles

Every new technology comes with both opportunities and challenges as it transitions from a laboratory discovery to the creation of a fully developed product. Those challenges include the responsibility to develop proper regulatory, ethical and community perspectives on how the technology should move forward. The Tata Institute for Genetics and Society is committed to the highest ethical standards in science, research and technology development, and emphasizes adherence to the following documents:

• Gene Drives on the Horizon: Advancing Science, Navigating Uncertainty, and Aligning Research with Public Values / National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine

• Safeguarding gene drive experiments in the laboratory / Science

• Arthropod Containment Guidelines / Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

• Principles for Gene Drive Research: Sponsors and Supporters of Gene Drive Research Respond to a National Academies Report / Science

• Guidance for Contained Field Trials of Vector Mosquitoes Engineered to Contain a Gene Drive System: Recommendations of a Scientific Working Group / Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

•  Guidance framework for testing of genetically modified mosquitoes / World Health Organization