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Professor Julian Savulescu (Principal Investigator)

Professor Julian Savulescu is qualified in medicine, bioethics and analytic philosophy. He holds the Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics and is Director of the Wellcome Centre for Neuroethics, Director of the James Martin 21st Century School Program on the Ethics of the New Biosciences and Director of the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at Oxford, . He is engaged in research, education and stimulating open discussion around the ethical issues arising in everyday life and has worked broadly in the ethics of science and medicine. His main research interests are the ethics of the new biosciences: cloning, stem cells, genetics, artificial reproduction and neuroscience. He established and was Director of the Ethics of Genetics Unit at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute in Melbourne.

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Dr. Steve Clarke (Research Fellow)

Steve Clarke is a James Martin Research Fellow in the Program on the Ethics of the New Biosciences, and a Research Associate for the Wellcome Centre for Neuroethics. He is on leave from the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics in Australia (until 2012) where he is a Senior Research Fellow. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from Monash University and has previously held appointments at the University of Melbourne, the University of Cape Town and La Trobe University. Steve is a broad-ranging philosopher who has published in such journals as The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Synthese, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Philosophical Psychology and the Journal of Risk Research.

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Dr. Russell Powell (Research Fellow)

Russell Powell is a Research Associate for both the Wellcome Centre for Neuroethics and the James Martin 21st Century School Program on Ethics and the New Biosciences. Prior to his appointment at Oxford, Russell was a Greenwall Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy and a Senior Research Scholar in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. He received his B.A. in philosophy (summa cum laude) from Binghamton University (1999), Juris Doctor (cum laude) from NYU Law School (2002), and Ph.D. in Philosophy from Duke University (2008). Russell’s academic interests are wide-ranging and highly interdisciplinary: he has published in areas ranging from political and legal philosophy to the philosophy of science and bioethics, in journals such as the Journal of Philosophy, Journal of Political Philosophy, Biology and Philosophy, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, the Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy, and the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal.

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Professor Roger Trigg

Roger Trigg is Senior Research Fellow Fellow in the Ian Ramsey Centre, Faculty of Theology, and is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is at present working in a major Oxford research project on the cognitive science of religion, and is also writing a book on religious freedom for Oxford University Press. He has played a leading role in many national and international learned societies, and is currently President of the European Society for Philosophy of Religion. The author of many books across a broad spectrum of philosophy, his latest are 'Morality Matters' (Blackwell, Oxford 2005), and 'Religion in Public Life' (Oxford University Press, paperback edition 2008).

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Associates

Professor Tony Coady (University of Melbourne)

Dr Jessica Butler (Biochemistry Oxford)

Dr Neil Levy (Oxford Centre for Neuroethics)

Dr S. Matthew Liao (Program on the Ethics of the New Biosciences, James Martin 21st Century School)

Dr Mark Sheehan (Program on the Ethics of the New Biosciences, James Martin 21st Century School)

Dr Pedro Jesus Perez (University of Valencia)