Sarah Chan is Chancellor's Fellow in Ethics and Science Communicator in The Usher Institute at the University of Edinburgh. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy of Scotland in 2018.
Sarah Chan | |
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Alma mater | University of Manchester University of Melbourne |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | University of Edinburgh University of Manchester |
Early life and education
Chan completed her undergraduate degrees in law and biological sciences at the University of Melbourne. She earned a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Science.[1] She worked briefly as a laboratory scientist in molecular biology before focussing her efforts on policy and ethics. Chan moved to the United Kingdom, and earned a doctoral degree in healthcare ethics at the University of Manchester.
Research and career
In 2005 Chan was appointed a Research Fellow Bioethics and Law at the University of Manchester.[2] She was appointed Deputy Director of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation in 2009.[3] Chan works on medical ethics, with a particular focus on stem cells, embryos and reproductive medicine.[4] and has written about the ethical risks associated with genome editing.[5] She moved to the University of Edinburgh In 2016 she was awarded a Wellcome Trust seed grant to investigate the relationships between social media and health, studying the nature of patient participation in the digital age.[6] She has studied the ethical implications of animal enhancement.[7][8]
Chan is a popular science communicator, and has delivered lectures at various venues including the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology,[9] the Royal Society[10] and the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. She provides comment to the national media, including the BBC.[11][12] She is a member of the SynBioChem council, which looks to develop sustainable speciality chemicals.[13]
Chan was elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2018.[14] She serves on the Genomics England Ethics Advisory Committee and the Scottish Genomes Partnership.[15][16]
Selected publications
Her publications include;
- Coggon, John; Chan, Sarah (2015). From reason to practice in bioethics. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-9623-5.
- Daniela, Cutas; Chan, Sarah (2012). Families – Beyond the Nuclear Ideal (Science Ethics and Society). Bloomsbury Academic.
- Chan, SW (2017). "Montgomery and informed consent: where are we now?". BMJ. 35.
- Chan, Sarah (2018). "In search of a post-genomic bioethics: Lessons from Political Biology". History of the Human Sciences. doi:10.1177/0952695117729119c.