Jenny Kleeman
speaker
443 appearances
8 recordings
5 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 15 Jul
Jenny Kleeman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Cathy is on a mission to make gene editing acceptable.
And I think that's part of the reason why she invited me to her birthday party is she knows that she needs to at least
be seen to be being open and transparent, open with the public, engaging with ethicists and in public debates and in a constant dialogue with regulators.
And that's her biggest challenge at the moment is to get these norms changed and to get research board approval for the work that she's doing.
I think it was quite difficult to get her to say anything at all because I think what she wanted was the publicity, but she didn't want to answer difficult questions.
And there were a lot of difficult questions that I wanted to put to her.
I think so.
I think so.
And she looked genuinely uncomfortable during a lot of our conversation, particularly when I asked her about her marriage to her Jean-Claude.
But there were other questions that she should have been more comfortable answering.
When you go and interview people, you expect them to be able to answer basic questions.
How many people work for you?
who funds you?
And she kept saying, well, I'm not at liberty to discuss that at the moment.
Our funders are extremely motivated.
I've got pioneers working for me, but I'm unfortunately unable to name any of them at the moment, which doesn't really strike me as being very transparent.
I mean, it wasn't the kind of response you'd expect from someone who's saying, hey, I'm an open book
She had a company called the Los Angeles Project, which sought to biohack pets.
So making glow in the dark bunnies.
What?
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