Interview

Jeantine Lunshof is a philosopher and bioethicist. Since 1992, she has been involved in international research collaborations on ethical issues in human genetics. She holds affiliations with VU University, Department of Molecular Cell Physiology, Amsterdam (The Netherlands), and with CESAGEN (Lancaster, UK). Her current work focuses on ethical and public policy aspects of pharmacogenomics, personalized medicine, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and on the philosophy of systems biology. Research interests also include the use of philosophical discourse practices in dealing with genomics' benchside questions. Jeantine has been an ethics consultant to the Personal Genome Project since early 2006. She is an Affiliate Member of the NIH Pharmacogenetics Research Network (PGRN) and a Member of the Public Population Project in Genomics (P3G) Consortium. She also is a member of the Editorial Board of Personalized Medicine.