Steering Committee

Peter J. DONOVAN, Ph.D.
Professor, Biological Chemistry,
Developmental & Cell Biology,
University of California - Irvine
2054 Hewitt Hall
Irvine, CA 92697
Email: pdonovan@uci.edu

Robin LOVELL-BADGE, Ph.D., F.Med.Sci., F.R.S.
Head, Division of Developmental Genetics,
MRC National Institute for Medical Research
The Ridgeway, Mill Hill,
London NW7 1AA, UK 
Email: rlovell@nimr.mrc.ac.uk

Ruth FADEN, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Philip Franklin Wagley Professor of Biomedical Ethics,
Director, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics,
The Johns Hopkins University
624 North Broadway,
Room 352
Baltimore, MD 21205-1996
Email: rfaden@jhsph.edu

Debra J.H. MATHEWS, Ph.D., M.A.
Assistant Director for Science Programs,
Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics,
The Johns Hopkins University
100 North Charles Street,
Suite 740
Baltimore, MD 21201
Email: dmathews@jhmi.edu

John HARRIS, F.,Med.Sci., B.A., D.Phil.
Sir David Alliance Professor of Bioethics,
Institute of Medicine Law and Bioethics,
School of Law, University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PL, UK 
Email: john.harris@manchester.ac.uk

Julian SAVULESCU, B.Med.Sci., M.B.
Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics,
Director, Program on the Ethics of the
New Biosciences,
21st Century School, University of Oxford,
Littlegate House, St. Ebbes
Oxford OX1 1P, UK
Email: julian.savulescu@philosophy.ox.ac.uk

Other Members

Philip AVNER, PhD
Senior Scientist - Institut Pasteur
Unit Director, Mouse Molecular Genetics Unit
Unite Genetique Moleculaire Murine
Institut Pasteur

Jayapaul AZARIAH, MA, MSc, PhD
Professor and Head (Retired),
Department of Zoology,
Director, School of Life Sciences (Retired),
University of Madras,
Founder & President,
All India Bioethics Association

Nissim BENVENISTY, MD, PhD
Professor of Genetics,
The Herbert Cohn Chair in Cancer Research,
Director, Stem Cell Unit,
Department of Genetics,
Institute of Life Sciences,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Katy BERRY, PhD
Department of Health
Wellington House
133-155 Wellington House
Waterloo Road

Hilary BOK, PhD
Henry R. Luce Professor of Bioethics and Moral & Political Theory,
The Johns Hopkins University School of
Arts & Sciences

Hannah BOURNE
Student, Monash University Melbourne
Oxford University

Peter BRAUDE MA, PhD, FRCOG, FMedSci
Head of the Department of Women’s Health
St Thomas’ Hospital

Silvia BRUNELLI, PhD
Senior Researcher,
Stem Cell Research Institute,
DIBIT-HSR Assistant Professor of
Genetics and Biology,
Department of Experimental, Environmental Medicine and Medical Biotechnology,
University of Milano-Bicocca

Liuhong CAI, MD, PhD
Director, Reproductive and Andrology Laboratory
Lecturer and Attending Physician
Department of Infertility  & Andrology Medicine
The 3rd Affiliated Hospital of Zhongshan University

Philip CAMPBELL, PhD
Editor-in-Chief, Nature

Sarah CHAN, BSc(Hons), LLB, MA
(Health Care Ethics & Law)
Research Fellow, Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation, University of Manchester

R Alta CHARO, JD
Warren P Knowles Professor of Law & Bioethics
University of Wisconsin Law School

Linzhao CHENG, PhD
Associate Professor,
Stem Cell Program,
Institute for Cell Engineering,
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Amander CLARK, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology, Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research

Katrien DEVOLDER, PhD
Research Fellow,
Centre for Environmental Philosophy and Bioethics, Ghent University

Natalie DEWITT, PhD
Editor at Large, Nature Reports Stem Cells
Senior Editor, Nature

Ina DOBRINSKI, DrMedVet, MVSc, PhD
Associate Professor of Large Animal Reproduction
Marion Dilly and David George Jones Chair in Animal Reproduction
Director, Center for Animal Transgenesis and Germ Cell Research
Department of Animal Biology

Thomas DOUGLAS, BMedSc, MB ChB, DPhil(Philosophy) Candidate
Senior Scholar and DPhil Candidate (Philosophy)
Oxford University

John EPPIG, PhD
Senior Staff Scientist
The Jackson Laboratory

Lixin FENG, PhD
Professor, Shanghai Stem Cell Institute
Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine

Julia FINKEL, BA
Research Assistant,
Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics,
The Johns Hopkins University

Minou FRIELE, PhD
Heinrich-Heine University,
Düsseldorf

Niels GEIJSEN, PhD
Assistant Professor
Harvard Medical School, Harvard University
Center for Regenerative Medicine and Technology
Massachusetts General Hospital

David HEYD, PhD, BSc
Chaim Perelman Chair in Philosophy,
Department of Philosophy,
The Hebrew University

Rev. Colin HONEY, MA
Director, Lonsdale Centre for Applied Ethics

Christer HÖÖG, PhD
Professor, Chairman, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet

Ching-Li HU, MD
Member of the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee
Senior Adviser and Emeritus Professor, Ruijin Hospital—the Affiliated Teaching Hospital of Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine;; Director of the Bioethics Committee, Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau; Panel Member, of Intl Health, Ministry of Health Beijing

Insoo HYUN, PhD
 Assistant Professor,
Department of Bioethics,
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Ryuichi IDA, LLB, LLM
Professor of International Law, Kyoto University
Graduate School of Law and School of Government, Japan
Member, Science Council of Japan

Mariella IMMACOLATO, MD
Director, Unit of Legal Medicine, Hospital of Massa and Carrara
U.O.c di Medicina Legale

Rosario M. ISASI, JD, MPH
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Genetics & Society Project,
Centre de recherche en droit public,
Université de Montréal

Kyu Won, JUNG, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Law,
Hanyang University

S Matthew LIAO, DPhil
Deputy Director and James Martin Senior Research Fellow
Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford University

Anne MCLAREN, DBE, FRS
Distinguished Group Leader,
Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK,
Gurdon Institute 

Reinhard MERKEL, Prof, Dr
Institut für Kriminalwissenschaften
Universität Hamburg

Maurizio MORI, MA, PhD
Professor, Department of Philosophy,
University of Turin

Christian MUNTHE, PhD
Professor of Practical Philosophy,
Department of Philosophy,
Göteborg University

Alison MURDOCH, BSc, MD, FRCOG
Head, Newcastle Fertility Centre
BioScience Centre, International Centre for Life

Norio NAKATSUJI, DSc
Director and Professor,
Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences,
Kyoto University

Toshiaki Noce, PhD
Mitsubishi Kagaku Institute of Life Sciences (MITILS)

Chris O'TOOLE, PhD
Head of Research Regulation,
Human Fertilisation & Embryology Authority

Mitradas M. PANICKER, PhD
Associate Professor,
National Centre for Biological Sciences (TIFR)

Mark PATTERSON, PhD
Director of Publishing, Public Library of Science

Roger A. PEDERSEN, PhD
Professor of Regenerative Medicine,
University of Cambridge

Martin Frederick PERA, BA, PhD, MA
Research Professor, Monash Institute of Medical Research, Monash University,
Director of Embryonic Stem Cell Research,
Australian Stem Cell Centre,
Monash Institute of Medical Research

Helen PICTON, PhD
Head, Reproduction and Early Development Research Group, University of Leeds

Beverly A. PURNELL, PhD
Senior Editor, Science Magazine
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Ren-Zong QIU, PhD
Emeritus Professor of Bioethics,
Institute of Philosophy,
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences,
Professor and Director,
Center for Bioethics,
Central China University of Science and Technology, Professor,
Research Center for Bioethics,
Peking Union Medical College

Alan REGENBERG, MBe
Senior Research Program Coordinator,
Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics,
The Johns Hopkins University

Renee REIJO PERA, PhD
Director of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Stanford University

Carlos M. ROMEO-CASABONA, Dr iur Dr med Dr hc mult, Professor in Criminal Law,
Director, Inter-University Chair,
BBVA Foundation - Provincial Government of Biscay in Law and the Human Genome,
University of Deusto/
University of the Basque Country

Brian SALTER, BA, MA, PhD
Professor of Biopolitics,
Global Biopolitics Research Group,

Josep SANTALO, PhD
Associate Professor of Cell Biology,
Departament de Biologia Cellular,
Facultat de Ciències,
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Rhodri SAUNDERS (MBioch Candidate)
Hertford College

Hans R SCHÖLER, PhD
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine

Hui Z. SHENG, MD, PhD
Professor and Head,
Center for Developmental Biology,
Xinhua Hospital,
Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Loane SKENE, LLB (Hons) (Melb), LLM (Mon)
Professor of Law, Faculty of Law,
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
University of Melbourne

Davor SOLTER, MD, PhD
Institute of Medical Biology, Singapore

Glyn STACEY, PhD
Head of Division of Cell Biology and Imaging,
National Institute for Biological
Standards and Control,
Director, The UK Stem Cell Bank

William C. STUBING
President, The Greenwall Foundation

Jeremy SUGARMAN, MD, MPH, MA
Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of
Bioethics and Medicine,
Deputy Director for Medicine,
Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics,
The Johns Hopkins University

Andrew M. SUGDEN, PhD
International Managing Editor,
Science International
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Azim SURANI, PhD, FRS, FMedSci
Mary Marshall and Arthur Walton Professor of Physiology and Reproduction
The Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute

Giuseppe TESTA, MD, PhD, MA
Assistant professor, European School of Molecular Medicine
Laboratory of Stem Cell Epigenetics
European Institute of Oncology

James TURNER, MD, PhD
Division of Developmental Genetics and Stem Cell Research
MRC National Institute for Medical Research

André VAN STEIRTEGHEM, MD, PhD
Scientific and Laboratory Director, Clinical Centre for Reproductive Medicine and the Research Centre for Reproduction and Genetics of the Dutch-speaking Brussels Free University,
Past-Dean of the Faculty of
Medicine and Pharmacy,
Past-Chairman and Executive Director of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology,
Deputy Editor, Human Reproduction

Susan E. WALLACE, PhD, MA
Policy Officer (Humanities),
Public Health Genetics Unit,
Cambridge Genetics Knowledge Park

Leroy B. WALTERS, PhD
Professor, Philosophy Department,
Georgetown University

Teresa K WOODRUFF, PhD
 Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Northwestern University

Elias T. ZAMBIDIS MD, PhD
Assistant Professor in Pediatrics and Oncology,
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University

Xiaomei Zhai, MD, PhD
Executive Director, Center for Bioethics
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College
Professor & Director, Department of Social Sciences & Humanities
Peking Union Medical College

 
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