Su Yeyang
Public engagement in genomic research
Genomics
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Du  06/02/2009  Au 07/08/2009

Ms. SU Yeyang holds a Master Degree in Genetics from Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. During the past three years, alongside her graduate studies, Ms. Su worked as the Director’s Assistant in Bioethics at the Beijing Genomics Institute, and has been working in the International 1000 Genomes Project, the International Cancer Genome Consortium and the BIONET Project. She is currently a junior research fellow of BIONET, and will start her study in the Erasmus Mundus Master Programme of Bioethics in September 2009.

With a specific research interest in public engagement, since March, 2009, Ms. Su has conducted a series of interviews with scientists and researchers from academia and industry, members from patient group and ethics committee, and science communicators from large-scale research project like the UK Biobank and BBMRI, to learn their experience and lessons in public engagement in genomic and bioscience research, and to identify the key factors in good science communication.

Ms. Su also explores the partnerships developed among different stakeholders in nowaday’s biomedical research, and addresses the implications of the massively available biotechnologies, which emerge on the global heath market, like the direct-to-consumer genetic testing.