Prof. Dr. Christine Abbt
Humanities, Social and behavioural sciences
Humanities, Social and behavioural sciences
Empirical Ethics; Moral and Political Philosophy; Philosophy of Biology and Medicine; Feminist Philosophy; Critical Theory;
Humanitarian ethics; Medical ethics; Ethics and epistemology of the life sciences; Marginalized voices; International comparisons of ethics and values, policy and regulation, especially stem cell research and covid-19, pandemic.
Visiting Fellow, Brocher Foundation, Geneva Switzerland, 2019
Visiting Fellow Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst, 2015
Visiting Professor University of Tsinghua, Beijing, 2015
Visiting Fellow, Brocher Foundation, Geneva Switzerland, 2014
Honorary University Fellow, Exeter Medical School (former PCMD), since 2010
Young Scholar Award, Programme for Ethics & Public Life, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA, 2006
Researcher ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society, Exeter University Fellow, 2002 – 2009
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin TU-Darmstadt, Zentrum fuer Sozialethik, IANUS, DFG Graduiertenkolleg, 1999 – 2002
English, German
Books:
- with Manzeschke, A., Pichl, A. (eds.) 2019, The Matrix of Stem Cell Science Revisited. Routledge.
- with Lorenzo Beltrame (eds.) ‘Biobanks. The entanglement of forms of participation, identities and biovalues in emerging biobanking configurations’, Special Issue Tecnoscienza, 2018.
- with Tutton, R and Sturdy, S (eds.): British Journal of Sociology, 'Genetics and the Sociology of Identity', 2013
- with Bender, W and Manzei, A. (eds.) 'Crossing Borders'. Agenda Verlag, 2006
- edited: 'Humane Stammzellen – therapeutische Optionen, ökonomische Perspektiven, mediale Vermittlung'. Pabst Science Publishers.
- with Liebert, W. and Ludwig, H., (eds.), 2002.
'Wissenschaft verantworten. Soziale und ethische Orientierung in der technischen Zivilisation', Münster: Agenda, 2001
- Monograph: 'Das paradoxe Subjekt. Unterwerfung und Widerstand bei Judith Butler und Michel Foucault'. Tübingen: edition diskord, 2000
Articles:
- Care Ethics and Care Contexts: Contributions from Feminist Philosophy, East Asian Science Technology and Society, 2020, 14(1):153-161.
- with Beltrame, L., ‘Assets, commodities and biosocialities. Multiple biovalues in hybrid biobanking practices Biobanks’, Special Issue Tecnoscienza. The Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies 2018, online from mid Jan 2019.
- ‘Between the local and the global: Evaluating European Regulations of Stem Cell Regenerative Medicine’ Lysaght, T. and Sugarman, J. (eds) Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, John Hopkins, in Press, Vol. 61, Oct. 2018, pp. 42-58; online May 2018 at: DOI: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/694819.
- ‘Can Harmonized Regulation Overcome Intra-European Differences? Insights from a European Phase III Stem Cell Trial’. In Regenerative Medicine, Vol 12(6), online first on 4. Oct. 2017, DOI: 10.2217/rme-2017-0064.
- with Harrington, J. & Baur, N. ‘Standards, Harmonization and Cultural Differences’ in Science as Culture, online first on 14. July 2017, DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2017.1347613.
- Anthony Mathur, Fernandez-Aviles, F., Dimmeler, S., Hauskeller, C., et al., ‘Consensus of the task force of the European Society of Cardiology concerning the clinical investigation of the use of autologous adult stem cells for repair of the heart – update 2016’, European Heart Journal, Feb. 2017, DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehw640.
- with Beltrame, L., ‘Hybrid Practices in Cord Blood Banking. Rethinking the Commodification of Human Tissues in the Bioeconomy’, New Genetics and Society, 2016, Vol 35(3), pp. 228ß245. DOI: 10.1080/14636778.2016.1197108.
- with Beltrame, L., ‘Umbilical cord blood banking: A hybrid bioeconomy’, BioSocieties 2016, Vol. 11(4), pp. 415–434. DOI: 10.1057/biosoc.2015.45.
- with Jean Harrington, 'Translational Research: An Imperative Shaping the Spaces in Biomedicine?', TECNOSCIENZA, 5 (1) pp. 191-201.
- with Tutton,R and Sturdy S, 'Suspect Technologies: Forensic Testing of Asylum Seekers at the UK Border'. Ethnic and Racial Studies 2014, Vo. 37(5): 738-52.
- with Weber, S, 'Framing Pluripotency. IPS cells and the Shaping of Stem Cell Science', New Genetics and Society, 2011 Vol. 30 (4):415-431.
- with Wilson-Kovacs, D and Weber, S, 'Stem Cells Clinical Trials for Cardiac Repair', Sociology of Health and Illness, 2010 Vol. 32 (1), pp. 89-105.
2018- ongoing – work on Humanitarian ethics and medical care, now especially pandemic ethics and Covid-19.
2015-2017 Host of Marie Curie Project with Dr Lorenzo Beltrame on Regulating Umbilical Cord Blood Biobanking in Europe, REGUCB
2011-2017: Principle Investigator Workpackage 7 in BAMI: 'The effect of intracoronary reinfusion of bone marrow-derived mono-nuclear cells on all-cause mortality in acute myocardial infarction', EU FP7 HEALTH.2011.1.4-1: Regenerative medicine clinical trial
2008 – 2009: 'Reproducing Organisms', with Christina Brandt, Exchange Egenis-Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, funded by British Council & DAAD
2006 – 2009: 'Stem Cell Research in Context', Co-Investigator, ESRC (RES-349-25-0002)
2002: 'The Potential for Social Conflict in Research with Embryonic and Adult Human Stem Cells', Co-I with Prof W. Bender, Berghof Foundation Grant
Member Leopoldina, German Academy of Sciences, Working Group Research Ethics Brain Organoids.
Vice Chair European Research Council Synergy Panel 2019
European Research Council Grants Panels, 2015 – 2017
German Central Ethics Commission Stem Cell Research, 2014 – 2022
UK BBSRC Bioscience in Society Strategy Board, 2010 – 2016
ESRC Peer Reviewer, 2011 – 2016
European Research Council (ERC), "Advanced Grants" Reviewer Panel, 2011 – 2013
Evaluator Panel BMBF-Förderschwerpunkt "Ethische, rechtliche und soziale Aspekte der modernen Lebenswissenschaften", Fraunhofer Institut Karlsruhe and ZfS Vienna, 2015
Advisory Board Member: Placeb-O Project, Cambridge and Sussex and Durham, 2009 – 2010
Advisory Board Member: GENAU Project "Genetic 2007-2010 Testing and Changing Images of Human Life", Institute for Higher Studies, Vienna
Advisory Board Member: EU Innovation Platform for Tissue Engineering "REMEDY", 2006 – 2008
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