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Benjamin Capps is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. He was previously Research Fellow at the Centre for Ethics in Medicine, University of Bristol, UK. In addition to publishing widely in the areas of stem cell science and neuroscience, Dr Capps has coordinated a number of ethics policy reviews in addiction studies.

Maria Casado is a member of the IAB Board and holder of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics at the University of Barcelona. Dr Casado is also Director of the Bioethics and Law Observatory at the Barcelona Science Park.

Chen Chung-Lin is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Law for Science and Technology, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. He received his SJD and MLI from University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin and his LLM and LLB from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

Bernice Elger is Professor for research and teaching of ethics, humanitarian medicine and humanitarian law at the University of Geneva Medical School (University Centre for Legal Medicine of West Switzerland). After completing her university education at Essen, Heidelberg, Bochum, Bethel (Germany), Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University (Houston, Texas) where she studied medical ethics, she received her medical diploma at Heidelberg, Germany and also completed a six-year university degree course in Protestant Theology at Göttingen, Germany.

Mariam Hassan is a doctor working at the Clinical Research Office of Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Lahore, Pakistan. Her main area of work involves clinical trials, chiefly cancer treatment trials (phases II to IV). Dr Hassan is currently enrolled in a postgraduate diploma course in biomedical ethics at the Centre of Biomedical Ethics and Culture (CBEC), Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT), Karachi, Pakistan. Her research interests include the ethics of clinical research in a developing country.

Renato B. Manaloto is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Philippines Diliman where teaches Existentialism, Philosophy of Religion and Philosophy of Law. Aside from teaching, Dr Manaloto practises law.

Sarwat Nasreen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Dermatology, Ziauddin University, Karachi. Dr Nasreen is undertaking a diploma course in Bioethics from the Centre of Biomedical Ethics and Culture (CBEC) at Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT), Karachi, while teaching bioethics to undergraduates of Ziauddin University.

Stuart Rennie is Research Assistant Professor in Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and co-Chair of the Institutional Review Board for social and behavioural research. Dr Rennie's current teaching and research interests focus on research ethics, public health ethics and medical ethics, particularly in the context of the developing world.

Robert Sparrow is Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Human Bioethics, Monash University. His current research interests include the ethics of human enhancement, multiculturalism, and new reproductive technologies, all subjects on which he has written extensively.

Salah Ud-Din is Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, Hamdard College of Medicine and Dentistry, Hamdard University Karachi, with a background in Clinical Biochemistry and Biomedical ethics. He holds a PhD from Hamdard University, MPhil, MBBS and postgraduate diploma in Bio Medical Ethics from University of Karachi and MHSc from University of Toronto, Canada.

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