Ask an expert

If you are looking for a quote or interview about anything relating to the impact of genomics on society or your enquiry concerns a subject not listed below, please contact Claire Packman, Egenis Communications Officer. The following academics also can be contacted directly.

Prof Barry Barnes

• Conceptual and philosophical implications of genetic research
• Questions of identity, and responsibility
• How new genomic information is perceived and modified by different audiences.

 Prof John Dupré

• Conceptual and philosophical implications of genetic research
• Reductionism, determinism
• Evolution, especially human evolution and evolutionary psychology

 Dr Hannah Farrimond

• Family history as a risk factor for disease
• Genomic risk and preventive medicine

Dr Christine Hauskeller

• Impact of genetic information on individual and social groups
• Genetic screening and diagnostic tests
• Stem cells/cloning

Dr Matt Hodges

• Agriculture and biotechnology
• Anthropology of science
• Time and emergence

Prof Steve Hughes

• Patenting and intellectual property in genetics and genomics
• Genetic Modification

Dr Susan Kelly

• Development, clinical introduction and regulation of and public attitudes toward non-invasive prenatal diagnostic technologies
• Social impacts of genetic testing
• Sociology of medicine
• Risk and hormone therapy

Dr Sabina Leonelli

• Data-driven research and regulation of data sharing
• Role of scientific expertise in governance

• Stem cell research, in particular cell therapies and their clinical use
• Professional roles and trajectories in biomedical innovation