Jeantine Lunshof

Assistant Professor
European Centre for Public Health Genomics
Maastricht University &
Department of Molecular Cell Physiology
VU University Amsterdam

Jeantine Lunshof  is a philosopher and bioethicist. She is an Assistant Professor at the European Centre for Public Health Genomics, Maastricht University, The Netherlands. Further affiliations are with the Department of Molecular Cell Physiology, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Institute for Systems Biology (NISB), and with CESAGen at Cardiff University, UK. Since 1992, Jeantine has been involved in international research collaborations on ethical and public-policy issues in human genetics. Her current work focuses on ethical questions related to pharmacogenomics, genome-wide association studies and personalized medicine, and on the philosophy of systems biology, in particular its conceptual and normative issues. Jeantine has been an ethics consultant to the Personal Genome Project at Harvard Medical School, Genetics Department, since early 2006. Recent publications address the challenges that advances in the genomics sciences and technologies pose to traditional biomedical ethics. 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 serves on a number of Editorial Boards.