Ethics and regulation of human embryonic stem cell research

Katrien Devolder is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders, a Research Fellow of Bioethics Institute Ghent, Ghent University, and a Research Associate of the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford. Her research interests lie in normative and applied ethics. Her current research addresses the ethics of genetic selection, in particular, whether we should select embryos on the basis of non-disease related genetic information, and, if so, on the basis of what principles. She is also working on moral complicity and on the role of compromise positions in bioethical debates. Katrien is the author, together with Johan Braeckman, of a monograph on the ethics of human cloning (Leuven University Press 2001), and during her stay at the Brocher Foundation will be finalizing a book on compromise positions in the embryonic stem cell debate (Oxford University Press).