*New* Nicolai Wohns to present at the CSDE Biomarker Working Group Meeting (5/1/2025)
Posted: 4/25/2025 (Local Events)
On 5/1 from 12:00-1:00 pm, Dr. Nicolai Wohns will be presenting at the monthly CSDE Biomarker Working Group meeting. The Biomarker Working Group is a forum for discussing practical and theoretical issues related to collecting and using biomarker data in population research. This event takes a hybrid format, meeting in Raitt 223 and on Zoom.
Nicolai Wohns is a physician and PhD candidate in philosophy at UW, studying the philosophy of aging, with particular interest in ethical and epistemic implications of geroscience. Dr. Wohns will present a talk entitled “The Ethics of Age Estimators.”
Age estimators have been shown to predict chronological age, onset of aging-related diseases, all-cause mortality, and disease-specific mortality, as well as other variables, such as income level, physical exercise, and vegetable intake. While their potential as diagnostic and prognostic instruments is considerable, these technologies also raise pressing ethical concerns—both within clinical settings and across society more broadly. In this work-in-progress talk, I examine the concept of biological age and explore a range of ethical challenges posed by the use of biological clocks.