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Author Biographies Vol.1, No.1

Alastair Campbell is Professor Emeritus of Ethics in Medicine and Director of the Centre for Ethics in Medicine, University of Bristol. Until recently he was Vice-Chairman of the Retained Organs Commission, and he has served on government committees dealing with Surrogacy Arrangements in the UK and with Therapeutic Cloning. Go to article: Public Policy and the Future of Bioethics

Dave Chokshi is a postgraduate student in Global Health Sciences at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics associated with the University of Oxford. His interests include the ethics of research in developing countries, the impact of genomics on global diseases of poverty, and the interface between public basic science research and private pharmaceutical development. Go to article: Ethical Challenges of Genomic Epidemiology in Developing Countries

Donna Dickenson is currently Professor and Director of the Birkbeck Advanced Studies Centre in the Humanities at the University of London. She was previously John Ferguson Professor of Global Ethics at the University of Birmingham, and held a Leverhulme Readership in Medical Ethics and Law at Imperial College London. Go to article: Human Tissue and Global Ethics

Søren Holm is a medical doctor and philosopher. He is Professorial Fellow in Bioethics at Cardiff Law School and Professor of Medical Ethics (part-time) at the Section for Medical Ethics, University of Oslo. Go to article: Informed Consent and the Bio-banking of Material from Children

Dominic Kwiatkowski is a Medical Research Council Professor in the Department of Paediatrics at Oxford University. His research is based at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics. The main focus of Dominic's work has been the molecular basis of malarial immunity and pathogenesis. His research group has been working to develop new lab techniques and informatic tools both for specific genetic problems dealing with malaria susceptibility and for genomic epidemiology in general. Go to article: Ethical Challenges of Genomic Epidemiology in Developing Countries

Kathleen Liddell is a lecturer with the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, and the Cambridge Genetics Knowledge Park. Her research focuses on the regulation of human biotechnology in the UK, including laws and policy governing tissue, data and genetic information, and intellectual property rights. Her work examines the ethical values addressed or overlooked in these regulatory systems, and evaluates the manner in which the fact of reasonable moral pluralism is handled. An overarching goal is to explore the interface of law, bioethics and democracy. Go to article: Emerging Regulatory Issues for Human Stem Cell Medicine

Bronwyn Parry is an economic and cultural geographer at Queen Mary University of London. Her primary interests lie in investigating the way human-environment relations are being recast by technological, economic and regulatory changes. Her special interests include the rise and operation of the life sciences industry, informationalism, the commodification of life forms, bio-ethics, and the emergence of intellectual property rights, indigenous rights and other regulatory knowledge systems. Go to article: The New Human Tissue Bill: Categorization and Definitional Issues and their Implications

Susan Wallace is Policy Officer for the Humanities at the Cambridge Genetics Knowledge Park. She recently completed her doctorate in biotechnological law and ethics at the University of Sheffield. Prior to coming the UK, she was Administrator of the Americas Office of the Human Genome Organisation, in Bethesda, MD. Go to article: Emerging Regulatory Issues for Human Stem Cell Medicine

Stephen Wilkinson is Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Professional Ethics at Keele University. He directs a number of the Centre's graduate programmes including the MA in Medical Ethics and Law, and the Professional Doctorate in Medical Ethics. His book, Bodies for Sale: ethics and exploitation in the human body trade, was published by Routledge in 2003. Go to article: Biomedical Research and the Commercial Exploitation of Human Tissue

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