Elemental are delighted to welcome Dr Jeantine E. Lunshof, a leading bioethicist and pioneer of collaborative ethics.
Drawing on decades of experience at the forefront of genomics and synthetic biology, including as the philosopher-ethicist collaborator in George Church’s research group, Dr Lunshof will discuss why new models of ethics are needed to co-evolve with advances in the life sciences. She will introduce the principles of collaborative ethics and explore how this approach can be put into practice to foster closer collaboration between ethicists, scientists, and other stakeholders.
Background reading:
- Lunshof, J. E., & Rijssenbeek, J. (2024). Collaborative ethics: Innovating collaboration between ethicists and life scientists. Nature Methods, 21, 1571–1574. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-024-02320-8
- Hyun, I., Scharf-Deering, J.C., Sullivan, S. et al. How collaboration between bioethicists and neuroscientists can advance research. Nat Neurosci 25, 1399–1401 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-022-01187-2
Speaker’s bio:
Jeantine Lunshof studied Philosophy and Tibetan Language and Culture in Hamburg and Philosophy and Health Law Amsterdam. She obtained her PhD from VU University Amsterdam with a thesis on advanced genomic technologies and innovation in Ethics. Jeantine was awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship by the European Commission. She developed the practice model of Collaborative Ethics on the workfloor of the lab. Jeantine’s research interests are in philosophical research ethics in genomic sciences and biological engineering where disruptive technological innovations call for epistemological and normative exploration; current focus is on xenobots, cyborg organoids, expanded DNA alphabets, AI-agents. Jeantine conducts her research as Philosopher/Ethicist/Senior Research Scientist in the lab of George Church at Harvard Medical School.