Silvia Camporesi

Silvia Camporesi is a PhD student of the doctorate program “Life sciences: Foundations and Ethics” , a collaboration between the European School of Molecular Medicine and the University of Milan (http://www.semm.it/phd_folsatec.php). Silvia graduated in 2006 in Medical Biotechnology at the University of Bologna, and is a former student of the 'Collegio Superiore' of the University of Bologna, a graduate school with access based on merit, which provided her interdisciplinary advanced education in parallel to her major curricula in Biotechnology (www.collegio.unibo.it). In 2004-2005 she spent a semester as a visiting student at the Technische Universitaet in Berlin. In 2006 Silvia was member of the Molecular Medicine laboratory at the International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in Trieste (www.icgeb.org ). In the fall of 2009 she was a visiting PhD student researcher at the NCI-NIH in Bethesda (sponsored by a UICC-ICRETT fellowship), where she researched on the ethical and regulatory issues of Phase 0 clinical trials.

Silvia is also Associate Editor of the open access, peer-reviewed journal, “ecancermedicalscience” (www.ecancer.eu), for which she corresponds on a regular basis.

Silvia is currently working on several interdisciplinary projects. Among these, the ethical and regulatory issues of Phase 0 clinical trials (her main project), the ethics of human-animal hybrid embryos, of human mechanical and cognitive enhancement and of the recent developments of Personal Genomics.

Silvia will defend her PhD dissertation in the early fall of 2010. You can find more information on her webpage: www.camporesi.eu

From 2011 she will be working at King's College with a 3-year fellowship sponsored by the Wellcome Trust.